Wednesday 23 May 2012
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...
City Councilman Al Vann this week blasted the Bloomberg Administration for a recent report that found nearly half the kids (47%) in his Bedford-Stuyvesant district live below the federal poverty level standards. The Citizens Committee for Children study also found that despite the recent influx of wealthier people and trendy shops to the neighborhood,...
Lordy Lordy…She won a 2012 Pulitzer Prize on the day she turned 40! Local Brooklyn poet Tracy K. Smith was awarded the prestigious prize on April 16 for her book Life on Mars. She first learned of her winning from her husband, who had just read it on The New York Times Web site....
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...
When the news leaked last Sunday that Representative Edolphus Towns was retiring, everyone was caught by surprise. “After months of long family discussions, I have decided not to seek reelection for my seat in the United State House of Representatives,” Rep. Towns said Monday. Towns served in the House for 30 years representing parts...
Legendary television journalist Gil Noble, passed to the other side April 5. And as producer and host of the beloved Like It Is, he took with him an awareness and love of the African Diaspora that I do not expect to see on mainstream television again. Gil Noble was not in pursuit of the...
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) late last month filed a federal lawsuit to curb a key provision of the New York City Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk program. The class-action lawsuit, filed March 28, alleges that the NYPD’s “Operation Clean Halls” program in which landlords can ask NYPD to patrol a building’s hallways...
Parker sticks by budget comments Flatbush State Sen. Kevin Parker this week refused to back down on his comments that his African-American constituents and other groups of people were excluded from the recently completed fiscal year 2012-13 state budget. Governor Andrew Cuomo, along with Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Republican Senate Majority Leader...
By Aimena Lipscomb A staggering 750 homeowners from Bedford-Stuyvesant are on the verge of losing their properties due to the city’s tax lien sale. When property owners do not pay their property taxes, and/or water, sewer and other property-related charges, the city can file a legal claim for collection called a tax lien. The...
April 5, 2012 – Forensic experts have confirmed the obvious in the killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida-— that the terrified voice repeatedly screaming for help was that of the teenager Martin and not the gunman George Zimmerman. And yet Zimmerman has not been arrested for hunting Trayvon down and shooting him dead....
