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We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Aaliyah Lane a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
At a young age I always appreciated art. From 7th grade up to my Senior year in high school I always took an art class but high school was the start of me getting into writing. I considered myself a popular loner, people knew of me but they didn’t know the real me. In class when we had down time I would always write out my feelings when words became hard to express. I had a noteboo...

Today we’d like to introduce you to Aaliyah Lane.

Hi, Aaliyah; we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?

When I was a little girl, Art and English were always my favorite classes to attend. Poetry became a big part of my life, but I always wanted to do photography, but I felt it wasn’t a career I could pursue. For Christmas, when I was about 8 years old, I was gifted a camera and took pictures everywhere I went. I grew out of photography

Fayetteville-area photographers share their photos from the 100 Professional Black Men in Black Photo Shoot in downtown Fayetteville.

Irving S. Kosloff was a Philadelphia native with dreams of being a dentist. He was going to use his athletic scholarship to Temple University to pursue his degree.

However, after a knee injury, he dropped out due to the lack of funds. Later, he founded the Roosevelt Paper Company. Roosevelt Paper Company grew to a leader in the printing and packing paper industry.

In 1963, Kosloff took some of the revenue generated and purchased a professional basketball team named the Syracuse Nationals. He r