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The  Brooklyn International High School  is an English Language Learners high school. It is located in Brooklyn serving New York students living in the five New York City boroughs. The teaching philosophy focuses on real world content and projects-based learning. The students and teachers collaborate on experiential and interdisciplinary projects. The student body is very diverse representing over 30 different countries.  [1] [2] [3] [4] Contents 1 Academics 1.1 Partnerships 2 External links 3 See also 4 References Academics [ edit ] Brooklyn International High School teaches new immigrants English. It offers a strong arts and science program. BIHS is a member of the International Network. A network of schools that prepare immigrant students in English Language skills and access to quality education. The educational needs of math, English language arts, science, history, and Social Studies are taught. The school has about 352 students with a student ...

Paul Tillman Smith Big Belly Blues Band THE ORIGINAL BIG BELLY BLUES BAND AND CD The Big Belly Blues Band originated from a blues song co-written by songwriter/drummer Paul Tillman Smith and Jazz Diva Faye Carol called the "Big Belly Blues" in Oakland, Ca., 2002. Guys from the local Sunday jam session at the Bluesville Jazz Club in Oakland California decided to form a Blues Band to honor bay area icon's ailing pianist Ed Kelly and vocalist George Hubbard. Jam session drummer Smith raised the idea that the band should do an album featuring the many talents of the band because they had all been friends for years and could now share in a special project. The band used the money from the jam sessions to pay for studio costs along with investments from friends. A retired bay area teacher, bassist and trombonist Harley White was brought in to pen horn arrangements along with band trumpeter director Kahlil Shaheed of the Oaktown Youth Jazz Workshops. The album fe...

 The  American Descendants of Slavery  ( ADOS )  About American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) was founded by Yvette Carnell, a graduate of  Howard University  in  Washington, D.C.  and attorney and Emmy nominated documentarian Antonio Moore, a graduate of UCLA. It was formed to reclaim and restore the national character of African American identity, and the group's experience of being enslaved in America (USA). It uses YouTube and Twitter to promote reparations in the United States. ADOS supporters see reparations as a way to address the wealth gaps in the United States of America due to slavery and the systemic discrimination of African Americans that followed and continues into the present. [1]  ADOS posits that a debt is owed African Americans due to 400 years of slavery in the U.S. and the wide range of damages that has been done to African Americans creating a national dialogue that has entered into the mainstrea...