Urban Literacy Project Is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) company, conceived in February 2005 by Omar Tyree, a New York Times best-selling author, a 2001 NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Work in Literary Fiction,and a 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Prize Winner for Body of Work in Urban Fiction.

 

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"U-L-P! Readers, writers and thinkers rule the world! In other words, individuals who digest, comprehend, and study the things that around them (reading), execute concrete plans from the information that they've learned (writing), and prepare for the possibilities of a better future (thinking), are the citizens most qualified to enforce the progress of any and all societies. So my mission is now to help prepare that literate citizenship by any means necessary,

where the sky is our only limit!"
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