By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 2010, Goldman Sachs launched the “10,000 Small Businesses” program to help business owners unlock their potential for...
The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, by a white Ferguson, Missouri, policeman was a catalyst for change in the St. Louis...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers battling over whether the grand jury record in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man should...
(USA Today) – The New York City health department will propose a new rule Wednesday that would require chain restaurants to put a warning symbol next...
(The Nation) – We all die alone. But some of us die even more alone than others. In New York City, if you are unfortunate...
By Marian Wright Edelman and Melanie Hartzog NNPA Guest Columnists Under New York’s juvenile justice system a child as young as 7 can be arrested...
JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One family of six was living in a homeless-shelter apartment where a dead rat festered on the floor...
(New York Times) – A recent applicant for a job as a correction officer at New York City jails had several friends who were gang members....
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City jail guards reported more use of force against inmates in 2014 than ever before —...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Despite efforts by New York City officials to tout a dip in serious crime, another statistic is getting...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two suspects were being questioned Tuesday about the shootings of two plainclothes police officers responding to a grocery...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rocker Jon Bon Jovi donned a New York Police Department T-shirt on stage. Well-wishers delivered home-baked cookies...
(USA Today) – Defying Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plea for a moratorium on protests over police conduct, hundreds of demonstrators in New York City briefly...
(Politico) – Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can’t do the New Politics if you don’t...
(The Washington Post) – Giuliani made headlines after his statement on Fox News, which he repeated the next day on CNN. His remarks were unusually...
ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An emotionally disturbed man stabbed an Israeli student in the head at an international...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City grand jury cleared a white police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of an unarmed black...
DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pay phones on New York City streets would become a thing of the past under a plan...
MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press NEW YORK — Tucked inside New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s sweeping affordable housing proposal is an echo of an idea from...
OXON HILL, Md. (NY Daily News) — As her father ran for mayor last spring, Chiara de Blasio was “overpowered” by depression and addiction, and “life...
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leaders and representatives from the retail industry met Thursday with New York...
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawsuit alleging that the New York Fire Department discriminated against minority applicants has been settled. The settlement means a trial scheduled...
JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio used his first State of the City address Monday to press...
[Global Post] [fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQFkHtrDBFs” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hQFkHtrDBFs/maxresdefault.jpg”] After a long public debate and legal battle over the NYPD’s habit of stopping and frisking people on the street –...
[UPI] BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 23 (UPI) — Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton and Joseph Sikora have joined the cast of the upcoming hour-long New York-set drama series...
