By Fern GillespieThe glam, sophisticated ladies of Harlem have recently been popularized on contemporary “girlfriend” television series like “Harlem” and “Run the World.” While the shows are fabulous fun, these successful young women are light years from the mature doyennes like Jeanne Parnell, who...

The Filmmaker introduced the World to Brooklyn and Brooklyn to Itself Bernice Elizabeth GreenIn the 1980’s Brooklyn was hardly considered “cool”.Then one young creative inspired by a strong family of creative activists, his musician father and educator mom,came up with an idea for a film...