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New NYPD Data Raise Concerns over Racial Disparities in NYC School Arrests

November 28, 2011 - Police arrested or ticketed approximately four students each day in...
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New York State Assemblyman William F. Boyland, Jr. Charged with Bribery and Attempted Hobbs Act Extortion

Recordings Capture Boyland Soliciting More Than $250,000 in Bribes, Accepting Thousands in Bribes Solicited...
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View From Here: “We Shall Overcome”

The video images of police officers pepper spraying like weeds students sitting with...
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Post-Acquittal, Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. Focuses on Community Development

Assemblyman William Boyland, Jr. has now emerged after a grueling federal trial that demanded...
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Nation’s top literary awards go to African-American Women

Jesmyn Ward takes fiction prize, Nikky Finney takes poetry prize -- Move over Toni...
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Daytime Raccoon Sighting in Bed-Stuy

We see rats nightly scurrying between garbage bags on our walk home at night,...
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Ratner eyes Brooklyn Navy Yard for Atlantic Yards Construction

Prefabricated skyscrapers could wake city’s manufacturing industry Developer Forest City Ratner is looking at the...
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Brownsville Anti-Violence Town Hall Attracts Standing-Room-Only Crowd

Brownsville Anti-Violence Town Hall Attracts Standing-Room-Only Crowd Anyone who has a loving connection to Brownsville...
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Rev. Daughtry condemns Sudan Refugee Camp Bombing Following North Sudan’s recent bombing of refugee camps...
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Diane Dixon’s HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ROUND-UP 11-17-2011

The Lincoln “Railsplitters” outscored John Adams Spartans with a blowout score of 54-6! As they...
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Neighborhood Technical Assistance Clinic (NTAC) Salutes Individuals and Local Non-Profits as Champions for Bedford Stuyvesant

On Thursday, December 1, 2011 from 6pm-9pm at the Victorian Mansion, 247 Hancock Street,...
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Music Haven Jazz966 Celebrates 20 Years as Brooklyn’s Best Kept Secret

“Authentic” is a word that we hear a lot now, as in being an...
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Education Beat: Benjamin Banneker Academy for Community Development is launching its very first rowing club.

Nine scholars have signed up so far to work with the Village Community...
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Another Atlantic Yards lawsuit Allegations that training program does not bring union jobs as promised

Seven Central Brooklyn residents last week filed a federal lawsuit against Atlantic Yards developer...
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Helped Me Find My Voice

by Hortensia Gooding On Dr. Norma Raybon, Spelman College "To inspire" originally carried a literal sense...
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View From Here

By David Mark Greaves It is widely acknowledged, and has been for some time, that...
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Kristen Clarke Named General Counsel of the NAACP

The NAACP today announced that Kristen Clarke, one of the nation's most respected civil...
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Glyne’s Fulton St. Barber Truck

Interviewed by Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsTell us a little about yourself.My name is Glyne Maccup....