This article is part of the NASA Knows! (Grades 5-8) series. Project Mercury was the NASA program that put the first American astronauts in space. Astronauts made a total of six spaceflights during Project Mercury. Two of those flights reached space and came right back down. These are called suborbital flights. The other four went into orbit and […]Read More
Proposed Rule Could Leave More Than 55,000 Children Homeless Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 23 states, today submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opposing a new rule proposal that would deny housing assistance to mixed-status families that include any undocumented immigrants. […]Read More
U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (Democrat) memorialized her late predecessor, U.S. Rep. Major Owens (D-Central Brooklyn), this past weekend with a renaming of the post office at 1234 St. Johns Place in Crown Heights. Located in Clarke’s congressional district, the newly named “Major Robert Odell Owens Post Office” resulted from Clarke’s bill, H.R. 5238, which became […]Read More
By Dr. Christopher Boxe Saturday, July 20th, 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the first humans (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin) landing on the moon via NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar mission. The landing site, the “Sea of Tranquility” (Mare Tranquilliatatis), was chosen via Range 8, which took over 7,000 high-resolution images of the moon […]Read More
The discussion of reparations comes at another turning point in American history. The Supreme Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is outside of court control. This means that the Republican Party, now controlled by white supremacists, will continue to cement their voting power by devising voting districts that favor their control and cram […]Read More
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU ERROR? Our Research Reveals Flaw in Methodology When researchers cite the U.S. Census, they expect to feel confidence in their source. However, in our research into the 1850’s, we were surprised to find that in the table on Per Capita Income of the United States for 1850 and 1860, the Bureau of […]Read More
An article printed in the June 6-12 edition of the paper objected to EMBER Charter School’s submitting a request to the Department of Education for an expansion from K-8 to K-H.S. This week, EMBER founder and Managing Partner Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II responded, presenting the merits of the school and correcting what he says […]Read More
By Melissa Clark , Kings County Politics It seems like getting sick will cost you an arm and a leg – literally. The ongoing health care- and prescription- drug catastrophe is a conversation and debate that will continue until Washington comes up with some resolution. Who are the people that suffer? You bet your […]Read More
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