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Special To The Black Star News
January 29,2015
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 Kevin Thompson with his dad The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal lawsuit challenging debt collection practices that have resulted in the jailing of people simply because they are poor. The case was brought on behalf of Kevin Thompson, a Black teenager in DeKalb County, Georgia, who was jailed because... |
President Barack Obama
January 29,2015
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 [Op-Ed] America's resurgence is real. With a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy production, we have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth. Now we have to choose what we want that future to look like. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and rising chances for... |
Special To The Black Star News
January 29,2015
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 Foreground: Torre Reigns as Levon Weeks, an exceptional teenager who has received a college basketball scholarship but who, on a star-crossed July 4, while protecting a teenage girl from gang leaders, is accidentally shot and killed. Behind: Left, Lorenzo A. Jackson as a gang member and, right, Brandon Mellette as a gang leader. Photo by Jonathan Slaff.Jonathan Slaff Representing: THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY Crystal Field, Director - 155 First Ave., NYC... |
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Marc Morial
January 29,2015
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 What does this year's selection say about the Oscars? This is what Robert Redford, actor, director, and co-founder of Sundance Film Festival has had to say about diversity and it's importance: “Diversity is basically a description of independence. Diversity is what moves the ball for me, and I thought ‘give people a chance that have different points of view. Let the audience decide whether they like it or not. But give those voices a chance to be... |
Ann Garrison
January 29,2015
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 KPFA Radio News report, broadcast 01.26.2015
KPFA Weekend News Anchor David Rosenberg: A widely feared and anticipated military attack by UN and Congolese troops on the FDLR, a Rwandan refugee militia in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, has not materialized, despite UN Special Envoy Russ Feingold’s repeated urgings. Instead, this week, the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo rose up in the streets to demand that their... |
Special To The Black Star News
January 28,2015
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 Noche Diaz [Community Announcement] In 2014 Noche Diaz was singled out, snatched from among protesters, and arrested by the NYPD near Times Square in the front of an August 14 protest march against the killing of Mike Brown and then on November 25 against the Ferguson grand jury decision to let Darren Wilson, the cop who killed Brown, walk. In August, the DA charged Noche with 6 counts for which he could get a year at Rikers. In... |
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Special To The Black Star News
January 28,2015
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 Loretta Lynch shown with Sen. Schumer in earlier meeting
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer introduced Attorney General Nominee Loretta Lynch to the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the first day of her nomination hearing today. Senator Schumer previously nominated Ms. Loretta Lynch twice for her current position as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “If there is an American dream story, Ms.... |
Special To The Black Star News
January 28,2015
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 Chirlane McCray First Lady Chirlane McCray announced today a partnership between the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, the Health Department, and the Fund for Public Health that will create a roadmap for a more inclusive mental health system in New York City. The goal of the roadmap is to bring together multiple City agencies, community partners, and mental health providers to develop a more comprehensive and unified approach to mental health... |
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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