NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A New York City councilman refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Wednesday to protest racial injustice in the United States. Council member Jumaane Williams, D-Brooklyn, sat during the pledge...
Read MoreThis year marks almost 50 years since the Ocean Hill-Brownsville (OHB) education reform. Five decades later minority kids are still stuck in FAILING NYC schools. https://t.co/tW9c8wKRym h/t @NYCParentsUnion & WNYC-TV OHB was...
Read MoreTHIS PAST FRIDAY (01/30): A (POLITICAL) MUSICAL SELECTION. FORMER BRONX DEMOCRATIC ASSEMBLYMAN MICHAEL BENJAMIN, ON LIKELY SILVER SUCCESSOR CARL HEASTIE [12:00 mark]. AND A LITTLE NOSTALGIA WITH FORMER RENSSELAER COUNTY ATTORNEY...
Read MoreIn an email to friends and supporters yesterday, former assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV declared his unambiguous intention to run for Congress in 2016. He begins his email, “Now that Congressman Charlie Rangel has begun...
Read MoreSay what??? Dr. Camella P. Price for #BronxBP in 2017. The NYC Campaign Finance Board released data for the disclosure period: July 2014 – January 2015. Dr. Price, a former employee of Bronx BP Ruben Diaz, Jr. reported...
Read MoreDownload Chosan Kef’s “Find The Cure (4 Ebola)” featuring Miss Sierra Leone 2014 & Miss West Africa UK http://bit.ly/1y6q4eY My friend and rap artist Chosan Kef was born in Sierra Leone, raised in Great...
Read MoreNot good! Assemblyman Bill Scarborough indicted 2X: 23-count state indictment/11-count federal indictment. Early on Wednesday the NYPost reported that “Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with...
Read MoreNot good! Assemblyman Bill Scarborough indicted 2X: 23-count state indictment/11-count federal indictment. Early on Wednesday the NYPost reported that “Queens Assemblyman William Scarborough was hit Wednesday morning with...
Read MoreFive people contributed $16,000 at the 11th hour to aid embattled Brooklyn State Senator John Sampson in his now-successful Democratic Primary win. Although innocent until proved guilty, I’m left wondering who contributes...
Read MoreMy latest NY Post column (8/29/2014): On Saturday and again on Monday, TV personality and civil-rights activist The Rev. Al Sharpton spoke of the need to separate bad apples from the bag of good cops. But without skipping a...
Read MoreThis post has been edited. Since my post, “Trouble In Ed Reforn Land,” appeared online yesterday hinting that AG Eric Schneiderman’s consolidation motion in the teacher tenure cases wasn’t sitting well...
Read More[NOTE: I was informed late Wednesday afternoon that attorneys for plaintiffs in Wright v State of New York had filed a letter advising the Court that they did not oppose the consolidation motion back on Friday, August 22. Click...
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