Special To The Black Star News November 19,2019 0  Yesterday, Pittsburgh Pirates organization shortstop Stephen Alemais and hip-hop artist WavesOnGianni hosted a baseball clinic at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx. The unlikely duo came together through their love of baseball and music and dedication to giving back to the community. In addition to running the clinic, Stephen and Waves spent time with the kids partaking in a Q+A, signed autographs and took photos. The event served approximately 45... | Special To The Black Star News November 19,2019 0  Elaine Gross, President of ERASE Racism, above, called yesterday on municipal, county, state, and federal governments as well as the real estate industry to address widespread housing discrimination on Long Island. New evidence of that discrimination is documented on a massive scale in a three-year investigation by Newsday published on November 17 in a 36-page report: "Long Island Divided." The investigation conducted a region-wide paired-testing... | Special To The Black Star News November 19,2019 0  On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (TOMORROW), Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. will host his annual Puerto Rican Heritage & Culture Celebration, honoring individuals who have contributed to the growth and promotion of their community and culture. The Puerto Rican Heritage & Culture Celebration will take place from 6 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Shanghai Red, 127 Westchester Square. This year honorees include María Román Dumén – co-founder, former president... |
Special To The Black Star News November 19,2019 0  U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) on Monday introduced a Senate resolution affirming the importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Section 1981, one of the country’s fundamental anti-discrimination laws. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced a companion resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives. Harris’ resolution follows oral argument in the United States Supreme Court case, Comcast... | Special To The Black Star News November 19,2019 0  The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has welcomed the African Union’s plans for hosting the AfricaAgainstEbola Partners’ Forum on December 2 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At a press conference in Kinshasa on 14th November, which followed a high level visit to the country by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AfricaCDC, Dr Eteni Longondo, the DRC’s Minister of Health, recognised that the partners forum would... | BOOK “RAP ON TRIAL: RACE, LYRICS, AND GUILT IN AMERICA” EXAMINES DOUBLE STANDARD IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Special To The Black Star News November 19,2019 0  New book examines racist nature in which rap lyrics (unlike other musical genres) are used in American courts as evidence to convict hip-hop artists--like New Orleans rapper McKinley Phipps, Jr. known by the stage name Mac. When Johnny Cash sang about shooting a man in Reno “just to watch him die,” nobody interpreted it as an actual confession. But when hip-hop artists adopt fictional personas to rap about selling drugs or killing rivals, America’s criminal... |
Special To The Black Star News November 18,2019 0  What is HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson doing (if anything) to help struggling homeowners, especially minorities and Black people, keep their homes? Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) wrote a letter to Ben Carson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The congressional leaders wrote to express... | Special To The Black Star News November 18,2019 0  Photo: By Thomas Good-Original work. Wikimedia Commons In fiscal year 2019 the City of New York earn a failing F-grade in the level of business it conducted with Black-owned companies, and out of a total $20.5 billion spent minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs) got... |
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.
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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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