Wednesday 23 May 2012
Earlier this week Council Member Al Vann honored both the boys basketball team and boys track team of Boys & Girls High School during the City Council’s Stated Meeting.
On May 17, the city will foreclose on any property owner who has not yet paid off any outstanding property debt or water bills, which could mean that 600 current homeowners in Bed-Stuy could lose their home to auctions by the city.
Sylvia Kinard provides worthy opposition for Yvette Clarke Despite incumbent Congresswoman Yvette Clarke coming from a politically connected Caribbean-American family in the largely Caribbean-American 9th Congressional District, her opponent for the June 26 Democratic Primary, Sylvia Kinard, is running a spirited campaign. Kinard, the ex-wife of former City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson,...
By B. Sadlonova A group of Medgar Evers College faculty and staff attempting to oust college President William L. Pollard and Provost Howard C. Johnson succeeded in getting a “No confidence” vote against the administration before the CUNY Board of Trustees. But a Medgar Evers College spokesperson Christopher Hundley noted the vote was taken...
href=”http://ourtimepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/london-olympic-logowide.gif”> Last Saturday on April 21 was the Day of the Races as Olympic hopefuls came out in different meets to prepare for the Olympic Trials. American Record Holder Sanya Richards-Ross was at the Michael Johnson Classic in Waco Texas and competed in her first 400 Meters of the year blazed the race in...
The orchestrated drumbeat for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to run for mayor is more than a little unsettling, because if the man responsible for stopping-and-frisking 684,330 people in New York, the vast majority of them black or Hispanic, is thought to be doing such a great job that he should now be mayor, then...
By Nico Simino In a bid to end the “10-year experiment” of mayoral control of the city’s public schools, Fort Greene State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery has introduced a bill to over-haul and eventually end mayor Bloomberg’s grasp on the public education system. If you give control to a person whose entire career is spent...
Two decades ago in Harlem, a kid had a hard time finding a place to play ball. Empty, garbage-strewn lots doubled as playgrounds. Fields were scarce, organized teams scarcer. That all changed in 1989, when Iris and Dwight Raiford started Harlem Little League. Now, over 20 years later, the league has more than 600...
By Ron Howell Last year at a Jefferson Avenue (between Tompkins and Throop Avenues) block party, I heartily shouted out my favorite phrase: “Bed-Stuy, do or die!” Some do not like that term, which has been buried in the archives of Central Brooklyn’s past. In fact, in some sense, it could be said that...
By Cynthia Gordy Minutes after learning that George Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of their son, Trayvon Martin, a stoic Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton addressed a crowd on Wednesday at the National Action Network convention in Washington, D.C. Before the parents took the podium, the Rev. Al Sharpton...
