Lehman Center Brings Doo-Wop to the Stage
Doo-wop is a genre of harmonizing vocals that came out of cities like New York, Philadelphia, Newark and Detroit, et al. A music style birthed out of African…
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The Change We’ve Been Waiting For
Have you ever tried something new, like a restaurant perhaps, and became so smitten with the place you found yourself asking…”where have you been all of my life?”…
Police Reform: Communities United Join Testify With Other Civil Rights Groups Before Obama Administration
Monifa Bandele Leaders of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) joined numerous advocates and experts to present testimony to President Obama’s administration on how to reform policing throughout…
De Blasio Praises Riker’s Reform Ending Isolation For Those Under 21
De Blasio and Commissioner Joseph Ponte Mayor Bill de Blasio has hailed the vote by the Department of Corrections' Board barring isolation in detention of people younger than…
Boko Haram Victims– 2,000 Black Lives Matter: Je Suis Nigeria Too
Boko Haram Show Solidarity With Nigerians As With The French As Well Do the editorial writers and editors who decide what goes on front pages of major newspapers…
Gov. Cuomo Grant AG Schneiderman Powers To Prosecute Cops Who Kill Unarmed Civilians
Daniel Pantaleo, who strangled Garner to death from behind. Where is the justice? Govenor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York's leading elected leaders must get…
Israel’s Netanyahu Invited Himself To Paris March — Reports
Netanyahu, left, at the Paris march France asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay away from a weekend solidarity march in Paris but he ignored the request…
Ailey II Returns To Joyce Theater March 17
Ailey II in Manuel Vignoulle’s Breakthrough. Photo by Eduardo Patino, NYC Ailey II’s “indefatigable, virtuosic, and relentlessly sexy” dancers (Los Angeles Times) return to The Joyce Theater from…
Terrorism In France And USA
French special forces police during this week's Paris turmoil -- columnist says all terror acts, including homegrown ones, must be condemned Last week’s bombing near an NAACP office…
USA: We Judge A Country By How It Treats Its Children
Marian Wright Edelman “A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory…