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CSEA Local 1000 Taps Liu For Mayor
[NYC Mayoral Election 2013]The Metropolitan Region of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, today endorsed John Liu for Mayor.CSEA Local 1000 represents 300,000...
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The Supremes: The Very Strange Mind Of Justice Clarence Thomas
[The Supreme Court]I am disgusted by Justice Thomas’s continued willingness to turn his back on his own race and deny his brothers and sisters the same benefits and protections that helped him...
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Summer Stage
Wednesday July 3, 2013longstoryshort:Remixed - A Tribute to SEKOU SUNDIATA withNona HendryxSandra St. VictorToshi Reagon and BIGLovelyFeaturing readings by noted poets Faybiene Miranda and Lenelle...
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TRU Presents Producer Bootcamp
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces the 2013 TRU Producer Bootcamp: Weekend Intensive for Showcase Producing on Saturday and Sunday, July 13-14, 2013 from 10am-6pmat The Players Theatre's Steve...
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Community Safety Act And The NYPD: Bloomberg's "The Blacks Are Coming!"...
Councilman Jumaane Williams [Speaking Truth To Power]This week the New York City Council passed landmark legislation to tackle the massive abuses caused by the New York Police Department's profiling...
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Jon Yanofsky is Named New Director of Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts
Jon Yanofsky, a seasoned performing arts and nonprofit professional, has been named Director of Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, one of the oldest performing arts organizations in Brooklyn....
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President Obama's Visit To Africa: Potential For Tourism Boom
[Business]As U.S. President Barack Obama wraps up his trip to Senegal today and gets ready for the second leg of his African tour with a visit to South Africa, followed by Tanzania, Africa's tourism...
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Message To Bloomberg: Xzy!!bVVXXZZ!!XX
[Black Star News Editorial]Mayor Michael Bloomberg's remarks on his radio show as reported in The Daily News:“One newspaper and one news service, they just keep saying, ‘Oh, it’s a disproportionate...
View ArticleNewark’s Revered Music Festival Returns for an 8th Year! 50,000 Expected to...
Newark’s Revered Music Festival Returns for an 8th Year!50,000 Expected to Return to the Lincoln Park Music Festivalfor Four Days of Music, Dance, and Safe Family Fun in theLincoln Park Neighborhood...
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2013 Brasil Summerfest in NYC Announced!
NYC’s premiere Brazilian music and arts festival BRASIL SUMMERFEST returns July 20-27, 2013 to treat fans to a sampling of some of Brazil’s most dynamic music artists, demonstrating the richness and...
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Rally To Free Samir Shabazz, WBAI Rescue Bid, And Other Announcements
[Community News/Annoucements]Malik Zulu ShabazzNews Alert: P.O.W. Dr. Mutulu Shakur is ill and his visitors including family have not been permitted to see him. Go to this website for latest update on...
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Will Mayor Bloomberg Have George Wallace Epiphany?
[Stop-and-Frisk: Op-Ed]Wallace: “Segregation today, Segregation tomorrow, Segregation forever.” Then he saw the lightSomeone close to Mayor Michael Bloomberg should pull him aside and let him know that...
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Alec Baldwin, Twits And Twit-Nits (Or Is It Nit-Twits?) In The Age Of Twitter
Twitter is good in exposing people's inner twits. Twitter allows people to twit-nit (or nit-twit) immediately. Twitter is the censor-buster.It allows people to express uncensored views almost...
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Rep. Jeffries Calls For Federal Monitor For NYPD Following Bloomberg's...
The fallout continues from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's irrational statement that New York's Police stop too many White people relative to Blacks and Latino, with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries now calling for a...
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Obama's Tanzania Visit Is Also Homage To Julius Nyerere
[Publisher's Commentary]How fitting that the United Republic of Tanzania should be the East African nation that welcomes President Barack Obama.Tanzania's independence leader and first president Julius...
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Republican Mayoral Candidate Catsimatidis, Grocery Store King, Comes To...
Catsimatidis: Claims without Stop-and-Frisk NYC's crime rate would be like Chicago's[Pardon My Rant]On Saturday, June 29, 2013 five Mayoral candidates came to 135th Street and Malcolm X Blvd. in Harlem...
View ArticleApollo Theater and BET Announce National Auditions for "Amateur Night at the...
APOLLO LIVE Auditions to be Held in:Washington DC, Atlanta, and NYC Amateur Night Auditions to be Held in: Philadelphia and NYC Online auditions for APOLLO LIVE to launch on Friday, June 28thHead...
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Security boosted ahead of Barack Obama’s Tanzania visit
[Obama In Africa]Report by The Standard's Oscar Obonyo:There was beehive of activity as security was tightened in the Tanzania city of Dar es Salaam, ahead of American President Barack Obama’s arrival...
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Court decision allowing immigration for same-sex spouses celebrated at NYC...
Members of Caribbean American Pride all decked out and ready to march in NYC Pride ParadeThe always flamboyantly festive NYC Pride Parade was especially exuberant this year.And well it should have...
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Obama Says U.S. Ready For Business With Africa
[News Analyses]President Barack Obama wanted to ensure that his one-week long trip to Africa this week wouldn't be viewed as merely a photo-op journey to deflect the appearance that the continent had...
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