According to the results of a study conducted by the Black AIDS Institute, young Black gay men have a 1 in 4 chance of contracting HIV by the age of 25. We must make the fight against HIV and AIDS a major priority within our community!
According to the New York Times, black and Latino New Yorkers are nine times more likely than whites to be “stopped and frisked,” but once stopped, they’re no more likely to be arrested. How do we put an end to this unjust program?
According to reports, President Obama plans to scale back America’s decades-long and highly controversial War on Drugs in his second term. Do you think the War on Drugs should be scaled back?
As the political spheres argue the residual effects of the healthcare bill being upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday, I think one of the worse things one can do is make “health” a red and blue political issue. Health: the general ability to have the soundness of a physical body and mental mind. I […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has forbidden the printing of a hebrew translation of her famed novel The Color Purple. Citing the treatment of Palestinians, Walker asserts that the Israeli Government is guilty of a “worse apartheid” than the United States.
A silent march in New York City yesterday afternoon brought thousands into the streets to protest the NYPD’s controversial “Stop and Frisk” Program. Activists and opponents of the program say the program is racist, ineffective and abusive.
The New York Times recently spoke with Tyquan Brehon, a young, African American resident of Brooklyn who has been stopped over 60 times under the NYPD’s oppressive “Stop and Frisk” program.
One of the most infuriating aspects of the unjust murder of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman was outrageous behavior of the Sanford Police Department. Not only did they not charge George Zimmerman with killing a unarmed teenager, they “corrected” the testimony of a witness who said she heard Trayvon cry out and never followed up […]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared at a black church in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn yesterday morning, and defended the NYPD’s highly controversial “Stop and Frisk” program. Was a black church an appropriate place for this?
7th grader Moses Hinton received an in-school suspension after a teacher claimed he wiped his hands on the American flag. Although the school principal is black, the Hinton family believes that the discipline was racially motivated. Was Moses unfairly punished?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPhnVaw874 It is always amazing to me when organizations find interventions that can radically change the way young people view their place in the world. As you can see in the video, this is an example of how Chicago Freedom School uses music and chants to build the self-efficacy of young people. There is something […]
15 year-old honor student Brittany Rowley has put the NYPD back in the headlines after being “roughed up” by two of its officers in a case of mistaken identity. Her harrowing experience is just another example of the NYPD’s outrageous, overly-aggressive tactics in our communities.
