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Reverend Al Sharpton President, National Action Network I am 53 years old, born and raised in Brooklyn. The Black governor is now one year older than I, and I am supporting a Black man for president who is six years younger than I. I am part of a generation where I never sat in the back of a bus, never drank from a colored water fountain. I was a child when they marched in Selma. I don’t know anything...
Al Sharpton's lawyers say a federal probe of the minister's finances has cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn spent several months looking at Sharpton's financial dealings and bookkeeping irregularities at his Harlem-based...
The 56th Assembly District in Brooklyn covers Bedford Stuyvesant and a few surrounding nooks and crannies. It has been on political lockdown by Al Vann, Annette Robinson and their cronies for over thirty years now. That’s all I will say about that (for now). Usually at this time of the year -when petitions are filed- you would find Richard Taylor’s perennial challenge to the Rip Van Winkle dynasty...
As we now Nicole gave birth to a baby girl on Monday but what everyone wants to know is why she has called her daughter Sunday Rose? We know that a lot of celebrities choose different names like Apple and Brooklyn but what made her choose Sunday. To clear al this up Nicole Kidman’s father has [...]
Perhaps I’m dating myself, but do you remember the first season of “Real World” on MTV? Kevin Powell was the poetry-writing community organizer that was (fairly or unfairly, I’m not sure) portrayed as the “angry young black man” on that season. Now he’s challenging moderate Democrat Edolphus Towns for his congressional seat. Howie: There is [...]
Reverend, we have an emergency in Crown Heights. Please report there at once. It’s not like you don’t know the way. Four teenagers have been arrested on hate crime charges for throwing rocks at a school bus full of Jewish toddlers in a Brooklyn neighborhood with a volatile racial history, the police said on [...]
Lousy news, potentially, for the Cavs, too, considering the mooted deal below is all about Jersey/Brooklyn acquiring expiring pacts in order to make a run at LeBron James. The Bergen Record’s Al Iannazonne is reporting the Nets are about to trade Richard Jefferson to Milwaukee in exchange for C Yi Jianlian (above) and F Bobby [...]
Photo Credit: Splash News Online Victoria and David took their sons Brooklyn, nine, Romeo, seven, and Cruz, three, to the notorious prison, which once housed crime boss Al Capone. Posh, as usual,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
From today's New York Daily News: Sharpton Gets Big Gun to Fend Off Feds, by John Marzulli: Facing an escalating federal probe into his charity's finances, the Rev. Al Sharpton now has his own muscle: former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Zachary...
Facing an escalating federal probe into his charity's finances, the Rev. Al Sharpton now has his own muscle: former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Zachary Carter.
Al Sharpton is being accused of threatening racial boycotts to obtain funds from large corporations for his National Action Network (NAN) charity. Sharpton has denied any wrongdoing and the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn is conducting an investigation. NAN was founded by Al Sharpton and began in Harlem in 1991 and now has 45 chapters across the country. The group lobbies for African-American rights...
You're going, right? Click for map » NYC Food Film Festival pizza component, al fresco in the parking lot next to Grimaldi's , 19 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 ( map ). Anthony Mangieri of Una Pizza Napoletana fame will be there. When: 8 p.m., Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Cost: Free Here's the complete line-up: Brooklyn Pizza : Motz's short, six-minute film is basically pizza porn, following the...
NY Post ISABEL VINCENT and SUSAN EDELMAN In a dramatic flip-flop, Sharpton in 2000 blasted New York developer Bruce Ratner for paying low wages to workers at his Atlantic Mall in Brooklyn. "We will not allow you to enslave our communities, Mr. Ratner," Sharpton told a rally. "You must meet with us - you must come to terms with the poverty you are creating using public dollars." By 2004, the developer's...
By special reader request, I am posting the following from Atlas Shrugs . After reading yesterday's post "Assault at a Brooklyn Mosque" on Atlas Shrugs you might think that Majid al-Taqwa is unique – that Muslims at other mosques in the New York area do not accost Jews and Christians who venture near their establishments – that they do not haul them away for interrogation by Islamists in Ninja suits...
