Special To The Black Star News June 27,2017 0  Kings County DA Gonzalez. Photo-Twitter. The Program Will Use Sports, Fitness and other Activities Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that his Office is seeking community-based organizations to partner in an upcoming youth development and crime prevention program that will operate in several Brooklyn neighborhoods. | Milton G. Allimadi June 27,2017 0  Troy Bansey; father of defendant Zaire Bansey. Photo: The Black Star News [Column: Righting Wrongs] Part-One of a series. I've been covering a double-murder trial in the Bronx for the past three weeks that just ended Monday and I'm concerned that two young men, one Black and the other of mixed descent, could be railroaded because the Bronx County District Attorney's office is determined to secure... | William Reed June 27,2017 0  Trump. With or without him we can do our part. Photo-- Flickr Are you one of those people crying partisan crocodile tears because President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement? Instead of waiting for the politicos to take action, isn’t it time Black friends of the earth take basic matters into their own hands Whether you are a believer, or not, the climate is changing, and black communities are on the front lines. From the New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward to... |
Andrew Cuomo June 26,2017 0  Governor Cuomo at the Gay Pride Parade. Photo--Flickr. The Congressional Budget Office score of the Senate health care bill confirms what we already knew. Republicans in the Senate are choosing to put millionaires over the middle class, cutting taxes for the rich at the expense of the health care of millions of Americans. This bill will leave 22 million more Americans without health care coverage, including 15 million more Americans by next year alone. Just like the... | Special To The Black Star News June 25,2017 0  Jean-Marie Kalonji and Sylva Kabanga Mbikayi Congolese Youth Leaders Detained By Kabila's Illegal Regime On Friday, June 23 at 4:30 PM Kinshasa time, the Coordinator of the youth group Quatrieme Voie/Il Est Temps, Jean-Marie Kalonji was detained by the Congolese armed forces of the unconstitutional government of Joseph Kabila. | By KfabsKorner June 25,2017 0 It is hard to say which offseason chatter would have been more deafening….Kevin Durant coming up short in his trophy pursuit or LeBron James coming up on the wrong end of a sweep! Thankfully, we’ll never know!! However, there are several things we do know: Best player in the world versus best team is most likely to yield a 4-1 outcome….there’s absolutely no getting away from the importance of eve-ry-bo-dy on the roster in team sports---and when the value of arguably one of... |
By Wallace Nixon June 25,2017 0  Kaepernick--justice is very costly. Photo credit: Seatacular.com Here's my rejoinder with respect to the June 23, commentary "Police Killings of Black People -- America Still operates on the Dred Scott Principle" | By Marian Wright Edelman June 25,2017 0  Senator McConnell--architect of evil Senate healthcare bill. Photo. Gage Skidmore--Flickr Dr. Gardner Taylor, pastor emeritus, Concord Baptist Church, at the 1996 sermon at the Children’s Defense Fund’s Haley Farm said: "Might it be that this land with all of its richness, with all of its opportunity for true greatness, its opportunity to present itself before the world as what a nation ought to be, might not be sowing the seeds of its very destruction in... |
Over the last few days, during this observance of the first anniversary of the execution of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, were now hearing chants of Weve got to fight back and We are ready for war.
That weve reached this dangerous place in the fight against police abuse was...
Last week a New York Police Department officer was suspended after a video emerged showing him kicking a suspect being arrested, now a group of NYPD officers are being investigated for bringing down Sandra Amezquita a...
The Ebola crises in West Africa is another occasion where the whole world gets to see inept leadership in many African countries.
There have recently been many postings on social media critical of the United States for deploying military personnel and medical workers to West Africa in...
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