DAKAR, Senegal — Tea is a daily tradition in Senegal. And as the country prepared to welcome Barack Obama, the U.S. president was the subject many were talking about over their teacups.

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Queens – The recession has hit New Yorkers hard, especially working class people who don’t have a lot of savings to cushion the blow of sudden unemployment or a reduction in work hours. Latinos are one group especially affected by the current crisis. That’s because they are predominately employed in construction, manufacturing and hospitality industries, sectors that have had the biggest job losses. According to a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, […]

International basketball prodigies take center stage My friend Collin Orcutt works for SportsIllustrated.com and he asked me to help him shoot and edit this video about the best young basketball players from around the world who convened in New York for the Jordan Brand Classic international game. [return to the home page and scroll through the top menu] domain value

Prizefighter or Weekend Warrior, Boxers flock to Renowned Gym “Now, whoever has courage and a strong, collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put his hands up.” -Virgil So reads a large yellow sign bearing the name of New York’s most storied boxing gym. It’s not located in the same building in the Bronx where it was founded in 1937. It’s not even in the gym’s second location, […]

Election Day in Brooklyn [click audio clip below] [audio:http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/nicholasloomis/files/2008/11/edayprojection.mp3] That was the scene at Solomon’s Porch in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn when MSNBC pronounced Barack Obama the projected President-Elect of the United States on Election Day night. To be in New York City that night made the exorbitant rent, exorbitant everything else, sardine can population density, late trains, and the vibrant variety of vermin totally worth it. Not because I’m some Obamaton who […]

Sneakerheads – The Mayor I was enlisted to help a friend with a video for her series on Sneakerheads. Below is the video that I shot and helped to edit. To see the whole series, visit this page at kristenjoywatts.com. “The Mayor, 36, takes sneaker worship to the next level. He recently sold the business he ran tricking out cars and is focusing, for now, on his tricked-out sneakers. The Mayor’s become so well known […]