Colin Benjamin July 21,2017 0  Cowardly Pantaleo applies the death squeeze This week marks three years since Eric Garner was choked to death, in a lynch-hold, on a Staten Island street by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, for allegedly selling loosie cigarettes, a claim that ultimately proved false. There has still been no justice for the Garner family. Pantaleo continues to draw an NYPD salary courtesy New York tax-payers. Even worse, can we say the NYPD has changed the very policies that led to Garners... | Mel and Pearl Shaw July 20,2017 0  Summer is often associated with beaches, family vacations, hot sun and good fun. For those in the nonprofit sector summer is also the season for retreats. These are times set aside to focus on programming, strategy, growth, partnerships and – many times – fundraising. While we believe in keeping the “fun” in fundraising – and all other activities – these retreats need to blend fun and business. With this column we share a few suggestions for how to help ensure retreats are well planned for... | Lee Hamilton July 19,2017 0  President Trump. Photo Gage Skidmore-Flickr [Commentary] There’s no shortage of threats to our democracy. Russian meddling in elections, the vulnerability of state voting systems to hacking, politicians’ assaults on the media, and political leaders’ growing fondness for policy-making in secret — all of these pose a real challenge to our system’s viability. As worrisome as these are, there’s one problem that may be the greatest threat of all: Americans’ loss of... |
Walter Smith July 18,2017 0  Trump--magical touch? Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr The latest GOP effort to repeal and replace "Obamacare" was fatally wounded in the Senate Monday night when two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump. The question is: Why and how could Donald Trump promise the American people that he would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act upon taking office when he didn’t have a clue... | Dr. Wilmer J Leon III July 18,2017 0  Officer Yanez Charles Dickens' 1859 A Tale of Two Cities were spoton in 1859 as they are today: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the... | John Muto-Ono p'Lajur July 18,2017 0  [Book Review] Book by the late Ms. Caroline Lamwaka (1963-2006) “There was no way I would have survived if I had not left, because the RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) virtually scorched the room” a quote from the book. “There was a great deal of anti-northern rhetoric within the NRA/M, followed by a general wave of anti-northern sentiments among the various ethnic communities in central, southern and western Uganda” another... |
Special To The Black Star News July 17,2017 0  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. Photo-Facebook The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) applauds the CARICOM Heads of Government who at their recent Summit in Grenada discussed the serious challenges facing Venezuela and its people and offered their good offices to facilitate a dialogue between the government and the opposition forces there. The CARICOM heads also reaffirmed their guiding principles of adherence to the rule of law,... | Special To The Black Star News July 17,2017 0  Cuomo, right, and Schneiderman. File photo-Flickr New York State will challenge the Republican healthcare bill's constitutionality in court should it become law, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman have announced. |
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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