Wednesday 23 May 2012
Does anybody read the NYS Constitution anymore? Last week in the dead of night, the NYS Legislature addressed a number of bills on Assembly and Senate redistricting, a DNA database, casino gambling, performance evaluations for educators, the establishment of the independent redistricting commission, and pension reform. All but one was passed with a simple...
Catch this Bus! Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Emily Mann (center) and starring, from left, Wood Harris (Mitch), Nicole Ari Parker (Blanche), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Stella) and Blair Underwood (Stanley). Previews start Tuesday, April 3 for a 16-week run on Broadway. A Streetcar Named Desire: A Conversation with Cast and Artistic Team....
A stalwart in the Bed-Stuy community for over 50 years, Joseph Foster, 84, has seen the neighborhood change many times throughout the years for both good and bad, but still to this day he remains a figurehead among the neighborhood’s small business community. Owner and operator of The New Bed-Stuy Animal Spa, located at...
Anniversaries Sunday, March 18 4:00p- The Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People (CEMOTAP) Celebrates 25 Years. Black Spectrum Theater/177th St. & Baisley Blvd. 718-322-8454.Free Admission. Arts Friday, March 16 8:00pm & 10pm (two shows): CYNTHIA HOLIDAY QUINTET in concert at Jazz966 for Women’s Herstory Month. 966 Fulton Street (bet. Grand and St....
Owners to demolish courtyard for community garden and more security gates By Carlene Richards Owners of Noble Drew Ali Plaza are planning to build a community garden in the courtyard and add yet more security gates, but some tenants and a local politician say that’s not the answer to curbing crime. Ex-Mets player Mo...
Possible court battle over voting rights district The New York State Black, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus is prepared to go to court to stop the state senate’s proposed new senate district lines. “This is not about protecting incumbents, it’s about adhering to the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 and renewed by Congress...
-America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization leads panel on attempts to restrict the right to vote- (Geneva) – Leaders of the NAACP testified today in front of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. They described how a wide range of new legislation threatens to prevent millions of Americans, particularly people...
Paging Annette Robinson Kings County Democratic boss Vito Lopez this week dispelled rumors floating around for several weeks that Assemblywoman Annette Robinson is retiring at the end of this term. “I saw her and asked her about it, and she said, ‘Vito, I’m not leaving and I’m running,” said Lopez, the longtime Assemblyman representing...
The Board of Directors of the Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant, Inc. (MTEC) — recognized as a pioneer for more than 40 years in creating green programs for residents of Brooklyn and beyond, has namedMs. Beverly Johnson, a former dean at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, as Magnolia Tree’s new Executive Director. “The...
Brown Memorial Rededication Rev. Clinton M. Miller & the Brown Memorial Baptist Church Family are inviting the community to the church’s Sanctuary Rededication Services Prayer & Praise Service at 7 pm, Friday, February 3. The rededication comes after several years of fundraising and construction to renovate the very old church building. Additionally, the church’s...
