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 […]Read More

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 […]Read More

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 […]Read More

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 […]Read More

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 […]Read More

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 […]Read More

“All over the world today people have gathered in love to celebrate the life of a man that taught the world how to love. People may be wondering why there’s such an emotional outburst, but you would have to understand the journey of Michael to understand what he meant to all of us. For those […]Read More