Wednesday 23 May 2012
Sixteen-year-old Brooklyn native Lia Neal recently had an extraordinary run at the CeraVe Invitational, a three-day swim meet at Rutgers University Sonny Werblin Recreation Center. Neal and her teammate, Annie Zhu, a senior at Brooklyn Technical High School, represented their Asphalt Green United Aquatics team. AGUA is Manhattan’s leading competitive swim team. Neal set...
The Center for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ)is scrutinizing the decision by the NYS Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR) to increase the number of New York State Senate seats to 63 based on methodology used in 2002 after the 2000 census. The average number represented by State Senators will increase...
The smile of the ebullient second place winner of the Republican Caucus in Iowa, former Senator Rick Santorum, is the front for a dark streak in the American consciousness that makes the skin crawl when you think for a moment of what it’s done in slavery times and after that. And when he tells...
Alma Carroll was touched by African History when she was born in Asheville, N.C. “The Land Of The Sky” December 16, 1925. Asheville was the summer home of the Vanderbilt’s and Alma’s grand uncle raised chickens at “Biltmore House”. Paul Robeson’s brother lived at the end of Ridge Street. Rev. Dr. Thomas Kilgore and...
1925 was a very good year for milestones in music, inventions and human rights activism. The Harlem Renaissance was in full swing; Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings; the first working television was produced; civil rights icons Malcolm X and Medgar Evers were born; the first potato chip factory opened thanks...
Last week we reported that Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., former senior minister of Riverside Church, has embarked on his next chapter as the Harry Emerson Fosdick Distinguished Professor of Union Theological Seminary (UTS) and is launching a national ministry of preaching and spiritual renewal. Our Time Press spoke with Dr. Forbes about...
It was disappointing but not surprising to read reports of the Facebook page where NYPD officers were found venting their hatred of the West Indian Day Parade and the participants in the 2-million-person event every September. With several members of the department in our own family and among our friends, we know those sentiments...
On Saturday, November 19th manager Lemuel H. Mial and the Von King Cultural Arts Center honored Leroy Thompson, one of their unsung giants and strong supporters with a “roast”. His involvement with all the recreation centers, softball baseball leagues, and drum & bugle corps brought out an array of roasters. St. John’s Recreation Center...
The video images of police officers pepper spraying like weeds students sitting with locked arms at UC Davis is only the latest example of how it doesn’t matter whether it is China, Egypt, New York or any of the 18 cities with Occupy Movements where Homeland Security is reported to be coordinating police crackdowns...
On Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 6pm-9pm at the Victorian Mansion, 247 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, NY, “something special will happen in Bedford-Stuyvesant!,” says Valerie Durrah, Founder and CEO of The Neighborhood Technical Assistance Clinic (NTAC), an organization which specializes in giving individuals and groups the tools and resources that truly make things happen for...
