Protest Rally Today: Justice For Eric Garner -- Executed One Year Ago By...
NYPD's rogue cop Daniel Pantaleo summarily executes Eric Garner allegedly for selling loose cigarettes[Community Announcement]Protest Rally & March on 1 Year Anniversary NYPD Killing of Eric...
View ArticleHow to write targeted proposals
Last week’s column focused on six basic things you should know before writing a proposal. With this column, we address three more nuanced things to consider. Some nonprofits create a “boilerplate”...
View Article"All Lives Matter" Comptroller Stringer Says, On Anniversary Of Garner's Death
New York City Comptroller Scott M. StringerStringer released the following statement today on the anniversary of the death of Eric Garner at the hands of NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo.The death of Eric...
View ArticleActivists Say "No Action On Police Brutality" By De Blasio Since Garner's...
Lifeless Eric Garner. NYPD killer cop Daniel Pantaleo ignored his plea -- eight times-- to be allowed to live In Year after Eric Garner Killed by NYPD Officers, de Blasio administration Took No...
View ArticleBlock Party: NYC Mission Society Marks 50th Anniversary of Minisink
[Community Announcement] On Saturday August 8, 2015, the New York City Mission Society will host a 50th Anniversary Block Party to celebrate a half-century at Minisink, its flagship Central Harlem...
View ArticleNelson Mandela Day: The Great NYC Visit
The Archives: Nelson Mandela in New York in 1990 Nelson Mandela International Day, also known as Mandela Day, is an annual day in honor of Mandela, celebrated July 18, Mandela's birthday. The day was...
View ArticleNYC: Diaspora Liberians Remember Victims of Ebola
To mark their country’s 168th Independence Anniversary, the Liberian Community Association of New York City will hold an Intercessory Church Service on Sunday, July 19th at 9:30am at St. Philip’s...
View ArticleSeeds: What kind are you sowing?
Chattanooga, Tennessee is a beautiful, small city bordering the Tennessee River. I’ve been blessed to have visited Chattanooga many times over the years – either individually, with friends, or with...
View ArticleThank Donald Trump For Exposing How Racism Defines The Republican Party
Donald Trump keeps telling it like it is -- the Republican way So racism is okay but disrespecting a war veteran is not? The obnoxious Donald Trump has exposed the extent to which the Republican...
View ArticleA BOOK REVIEW OF DR. WADE NOBLES’ "THE ISLAND OF MEMES: HAITI’S UNFINISHED...
As many of us celebrated the 4th of July and Bastille Day, the nation’s foremost psychologist, Dr. Wade W. Nobles (Ifagbemi Sangodare Nana Kwaku Berko I) of San Francisco State University has produced...
View ArticleWhat if a saliva test could detect Alzheimer’s?
What if you could detect your likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s by taking a simple saliva test? Does it sound too good to be true? Well according to a small study presented at the 2015 Alzheimer’s...
View Article20th Anniversary Pilgrimage To Haiti: The First Black Republic
Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Haiti Support Project The Experience of a Lifetime October 14 - 18, 2015 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Haiti Support Project...
View ArticleWorld’s Preeminent Tennis & Music Festival Kicks-Off 2015 US Open at Billie...
Novak Djokovic The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has announced a star-studded lineup for the milestone 20th annual Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day presented by Hess. The stadium show will include...
View ArticleWhite House Meeting: Obama Praises Buhari For Vow To Fight Corruption
President Obama Meets Nigeria's Buhari in White House PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, it’s a great pleasure to welcome President Buhari and his delegation here to the Oval Office for his first visit since the...
View ArticleUS STILL DEMANDING THAT BURUNDI'S NKURUNZIZA STAND DOWN
UN human rights investigators, in a press release from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, have asked the UN Security Council to take urgent action to prevent mass violence in the...
View ArticleUber Challenges Mayor De Blasio To Public Debate On Capping Proposal
Dear Mr. Mayor, When your proposal to cap Uber was introduced, your administration said it was about congestion. The op-ed you wrote in the New York Daily News this weekend was about everything but...
View ArticleLong Days of Summer: The British Open, Wimbledon & More
All Hail the Queen...of tennis, that is. Serena Williams' journey along the grass courts of Wimbledon were not drama free. A few matches were more tightly contested than others. In the end, even big...
View ArticleFacebook Opens Its First Office in Africa
Facebook opens its first office in AfricaAt the end of June 2015, Facebook opened its first office in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. The office will be headed by Nunu Ntshingila-Njeke. According...
View ArticleHeathcliff Huxtable is dead
“Power tends to corrupt – and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” ~Sir John Dalberg-Acton It’s true that we should all be presumed innocent until proven guilty. However, once that guilt has been...
View ArticleHow to Keep Our Black Boys Alive: Channeling the Rage
Marian Wright Edelman The recent spotlight on systematic racial profiling and police brutality against Black boys and men has exposed a painful truth long known in the Black community: just about...
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