Like many Brooklynites, I knew the late Frank Mickens mostly by his reputation and good works.  He turned Boys & Girls High into a place that, more than any public school I have known, genuinely welcomed the outside world. Countless panel discussions, political town hall...

Senate Standoff It’s a mistake to think of the stalemate in the New York State senate as the product of mere incompetence, as if the 62 members were simply unable to create a governing quorum. This is a bona fide power struggle in which the...

Here's an interesting fact: nationwide, the number of businesses owned by African- Americans has gone through the roof in the last few years.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, black-owned companies increased a whopping 46% in the five years between 1987 and 1992, from...