Portfolio of my published essays and blogs:

FROM THE NEWARK METRO:

Little Italy, A Shrinking Reality
By Robin Laverne Wilson

Signposts on Elizabeth Street are painted with red, white and green stripes. Statues of fat Guidos in chef suits, licking their chops, are stationed outside every other restaurant. Website after website claims it has the best Italian cuisine in New York City. But ask an Italian-born Italian, and the culture of Little Italy is utterly foreign… [MORE]
http://www.newarkmetro.rutgers.edu/essays/display.php?id=219

Downtown Jersey City
By Robin Laverne Wilson

The armpit of metropolitan New York is cleaning itself up, applying some deodorant and rapidly becoming attractive to post-9/11 evacuees and transplant pseudo-New Yorkers. A walk through downtown Jersey City reveals a unique hybrid of Brooklyn-style brownstones and historic districts, embattled, old warehouses becoming lofts and artists’
studios… [MORE]
http://www.newarkmetro.rutgers.edu/reports/display.php?id=218

FROM BRAVE NEW FILMS:

“I Was Off to Represent For My Fathers…”:
Field Producer Robin on Veterans and the Petition Delivery

I put on my brown military thermals, my chocolate chip cammies, my black bandana and my black boots.  I was off to represent for my father, my uncle, their army buddies and all the people in my life that I knew and didn’t know who had served this country and in some way, often the same way, got the shaft from it… [MORE]
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/27645–i-was-off-to-represent-for-my-fathers-field-producer-robin-on-veterans-and-the-petition-delivery