Wednesday 23 May 2012
If any actor-writer’s shoes are hard to fill, it’s the pair that belongs to Daniel Beaty, the hardest-working thespian off-Broadway. This Saturday, May 12, the hugely popular actor adds yet another multi-faceted character to his list of “long-running” cameos when he debuts the one-act play, Mr. Joy, as a New York-based Chinese shoe storeowner....
Sylvia Kinard provides worthy opposition for Yvette Clarke Despite incumbent Congresswoman Yvette Clarke coming from a politically connected Caribbean-American family in the largely Caribbean-American 9th Congressional District, her opponent for the June 26 Democratic Primary, Sylvia Kinard, is running a spirited campaign. Kinard, the ex-wife of former City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson,...
The orchestrated drumbeat for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to run for mayor is more than a little unsettling, because if the man responsible for stopping-and-frisking 684,330 people in New York, the vast majority of them black or Hispanic, is thought to be doing such a great job that he should now be mayor, then...
Shootings recall 1921 Tulsa race riot that burned the “Black Wall Street” to the ground Two Oklahoma men, accused of a deadly shooting spree last week that apparently targeted black people at random along Tulsa’s streets, have confessed to the shootings. Jake England, 19, confessed to shooting three people, and Alvin Watts, 32,...
By Nico Simino With two elected officials in attendance, one of the city’s foremost educators led a lively discussion on the state of the city’s public schools at last Saturday’s Vanguard Independent Democratic Association (VIDA) monthly meeting. Dr. Lester Young, Jr, of the Adelaide L. Sanford Institute, who led an education reform focused conference...
As Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza continues eviction proceedings against one of the community’s oldest grass roots organizations, a City Council member from outside the district said he is willing to mediate to resolve the issue. Restoration Plaza was established during the height of the Civil Rights Movement with the help of Bobby Kennedy under the...
Owners to demolish courtyard for community garden and more security gates By Carlene Richards Owners of Noble Drew Ali Plaza are planning to build a community garden in the courtyard and add yet more security gates, but some tenants and a local politician say that’s not the answer to curbing crime. Ex-Mets player Mo...
–Ed Towns moves from representing 10th Congressional District to the 8th District – The 10th Congressional District that incumbent Ed Towns has represented for 32 years will now be the 8th Congressional District according to new congressional boundaries that a federal magistrate proposed earlier this week. U.S. Magistrate Roanne Mann put out the new...
This week Honorable Roanne L. Mann, United States Magistrate Judge Eastern District of New York, released her draft redistricting plan for NYS. Judge Mann was appointed by the federal three judge court, led by federal appellate Judge Raggi, to undertake the enormous task of drawing long awaited and delayed congressional lines. Judge Mann hired...
“… you haven’t heard anything till hear her voice; she’s about to take the industry by storm.” Dionne Warwick said these glowing remarks during an interview conducted for a CBS Television Network special taping in Canada, winter 1983. Here I was freezing in Quebec, a senior publicity executive for CBS Television Network (and the...
