Cheryl Wills

“I could have become a prostitute and a crackhead or I could have become Cheryl Wills that’s on TV.” - Cheryl Wills   Actor LeVar Burton as "Kunta Kinte" Kunta Kinte, Kizzy, Chicken George…these names are legendary in the African-American community. Many of us were too young to understand these complex “characters” and many more were born decades after they marched into homes across America.  For folks old enough to know there seemed to be two sides – those who felt a sense of kinship and...Read Full Story

There are clear advantages to living in a hip, cool neighborhood – there is always something hip and cool to do.  Tuesday night I took full advantage of the coolness when I dropped by the super cute Brooklyn Stone Boutique in Fort Greene, Brooklyn for NY1 Anchor Cheryl Wills’ booksigning soiree.   First let’s talk about the “where.“ Did I say super cute?!  Opened last September, Brooklyn Stone Boutique features hot, trendy, fashions that are mostly imported from the UK and Australia. Boutique...Read Full Story

1) What is your name and what do you do? My name is Cheryl Wills and I am an author and television anchor for Time Warner Cable's flagship cable news network called New York 1 News. 2) Tell us about your book? What do readers gain from reading it? My book is called "Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale." It is about my great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, who was a runaway slave in Haywood County, Tennessee. Sandy joined the United States Colored Troops in 1863 and fought for the Union...Read Full Story

African-American mayors from across the United States left their tight-knit communities, some with as few as 855 citizens, and traveled across the Atlantic Ocean for a historic dialogue in Dakar, Senegal. Read More...Read Full Story

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