VIDEO: We saw this young man sitting on the steps of the First Corinthian Baptist Church on Thanksgiving Day. He was calling us over and offering something to eat.readmore
Bernice Elizabeth Green
November 8, 2009
Pooling Talents and Growing with Style: (Left to right) Darlene Slater, Richard L. Akers, and Carolyn Pratt, all retirees, are not geezers or codgers; they are managing the aging process, and having fun. That’s the reason yesterday morning at the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA they were looking for a term to replace “Splashers.” Richie, a septuagenarian volunteer […]readmore
Kimberlee Currans-Leto
October 22, 2009
… How Do You Mend a Broken System, Broken Promises, Broken Hearts? (Part 5 of Five Parts) Kimberlee Currans-Leto UPSTATE ROUNDTABLE (Troy, New York) There’s something rotten in America. While other countries provide for their citizens, ours continue to struggle at every turn. In today’s economy, families are faced with impossible pressures and decisions […]readmore
Mary Alice Miller
September 3, 2009
The latest Comptroller debate took place in central Brooklyn, hosted by Brooklyn for Barack. Lead organizer Jordan Thomas said the Comptroller debate is “part of a series of activities designed to keep people engaged after the historic 2008 election of Barack Obama.” Organizer Amanda Thompkins said planning for the event began when voters were asking […]readmore
Kimberlee Currans-Leto
August 29, 2009
Many years have passed since the Clinton Administration failed to promote a universal health care approach to a system direly in need of revamping. After decades of proposal and defeat, it is clear the American health care system is broken. Instead, the health care system as many Americans know and understand, has been allowed to […]readmore
David Mark Greaves
July 24, 2009
Henry Louis Gates arrested in his own home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Joseph “Shem” Walker shot in front of his home in Brooklyn, New York. A private Philadelphia swim club refuses entrance to black youngsters, the fixation on the two paragraphs of President Obama’s speech to the NAACP where he speaks of personal responsibility of African-American […]readmore
Errol Louis
July 16, 2009
Like many Brooklynites, I knew the late Frank Mickens mostly by his reputation and good works. He turned Boys & Girls High into a place that, more than any public school I have known, genuinely welcomed the outside world. Countless panel discussions, political town hall meetings, community celebrations and other gatherings were held there, notably […]readmore
David Mark Greaves
July 16, 2009
The only thing known for sure is this: A man was on the stoop of 370 Lafayette Avenue Saturday evening where the Walker family lived. Because the Walker home is a few doors from a suspected drug house, Mr. Shem Walker was accustomed to shooing away loiterers from his property. The drug-involved, or street people […]readmore