Wednesday 23 May 2012
New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly issued a challenge for local lawmakers to come up with ideas other than stop-and-frisk measures to reduce crime in communities of color and Central Brooklyn’s elected officials responded with a boatload. Kelly issued the challenge on March 13 when he was grilled before the New York City...
Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law questioned amid allegations of a cover up By Aimena Lipscomb The FBI and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have stepped in to further investigate the Trayvon Martin tragedy. Martin, a 17-year-old, 140 lb unarmed teen, was shot and killed February 26 by 28-year-old George Zimmerman, the self-appointed town...
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...
DOE surveys students, parents and teachers The city’s Department of Education (DOE) announced the agency’s sixth annual New York City School Survey of public school students, parents, and teachers. The survey captures a more complete picture of each school’s learning environment by quantifying community feedback on academic expectations, communication, engagement and safety. “We place...
There’s an old saying to “not change horses or police commissioners midstream”. So perhaps NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly should finish out with the Bloomberg Administration and become more accountable to the people he serves. The NYPD has been on a horrible streak with community relations and it’s resulted in a growing mistrust of cops....
It is acknowledged that legacies and attitudes toward life are carried on through families and down through the generations. And those persons now in their eighties and nineties can tell stories that their parents and grandparents told them about the lynchings and the terror and the days after slavery. The other side of those...
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...
How African-Americans are being used so far in this election season should be a cause for instruction on the depth of the situation we’re in. The Republicans are using racist themes and buzzwords as a full-throated rallying cry to bring their troops out, while the Democrats share a love that dare not speak its...
“Red Tails,” George Lucas’ major motion picture tribute to the Tuskegee Airman, was released just a few days after Martin Luther King, Jr. ’s birthday and became the “must see movie” in Black communities nationwide. For opening weekend, the action/fighter pilot film was the destination of bus trips packed with church groups and youth...
