Wednesday 23 May 2012
“Authentic” is a word that we hear a lot now, as in being an “authentic” reproduction of a chair or table, something that looks like the original but you know is not. Every Friday night for most of the year the jazz venue Jazz966 is not just “authentic”, it is the thing itself– a...
Nine scholars have signed up so far to work with the Village Community Boathouse who introduces young people interested in the sport. The club meets weekly at the Brooklyn Navy Yards where they are educated on rowing terms and team building skills. The scholars are also engaged in a safe clean-up project along the...
Seven Central Brooklyn residents last week filed a federal lawsuit against Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner (FCR) and a local nonprofit organization alleging that the job training program they participated in did not result in their getting a construction union card nor work on the Atlantic Yards site. The residents participated in a...
The process of changing boundry lines for electoral districts is a critical one and the Center for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) has been conducting a series of forums alerting the community to upcoming actions regarding the redistricting process. Moderated by election law and voting rights specialist Judge Paul Wooten, Dr. Esmerelda Simmons and...
Several hundred marchers came from Brownsville to Wall Street last Saturday to protest the result of economic inequities and to speak on the many connections between the targets of the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the situation of African-Americans. Not forgotten is that the 1% got to be the 1% by first stealing the...
PTA Prez: DOE Set up 256 to Fail– About a hundred angry parents, educators and students from PS 256 rallied outside their school this week in fear and resentment that the city’s Department of Education (DOE) is considering closing the school. The DOE recently placed the school, located at 114 Kosciuszko Street, on its...
The issues of home foreclosures and homes in jeopardy as well as the co-location of charter schools into “underused” public school buildings, are both rooted in the business models of hedge funds earning hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars a year. The bundling, leveraging and profit-taking from a base of home mortgages, has...
On a rainy Tuesday in a sea of drenched mainly white faces, Kamar Duncan, 21, stood out as one of the few African-Americans involved on the fourth day of Occupy Wall Street – the largely Internet-organized protest questioning the federal bailout of investment banks and large corporations. “I’m here because we need to do...
In the midst of a violent, gory summer, there was an oasis of peace. The summer of 2011 marks the first time in recent memory in which no shootings, stabbings or killings occurred in what has historically been known as the most violent section of the 75th precinct. Man Up Inc!’s Cease-Fire ENY Team...
Bedford Academy High School has collaborated with the American Association of Blacks in Energy in the New York Metropolitan Area (AABE- NYMAC) to sponsor the Summer Energy Academy (S.E.A. Program) at Bedford Academy H.S. Seventeen students between the ages of 11-14 were carefully selected to engage in the 6-week summer program, highlighting several aspects...
