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Polls Show Sanders Would Perform Better Than Clinton Against GOP Candidates

Bernie Sanders–without either Iowa or New Hampshire doors closed? [Future Hope Column: Elections 2016] Those Bernie supporters who saw media reports yesterday of the ...

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After $41 Million Settlement, Some Harsh Words For Bloomberg, As Central Park 5 Thank De Blasio And Supporters

Santana, Richardson, Salaam, and Clay. Photo: Black Star News Listening to one of the men who served a long prison sentence for a false ...

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Will De Blasio Be a Tech- Start Up Friendly Mayor?

[Start Ups] Bill De Blasio’s historic win this week in the NYC Mayoral election puts the Brooklynite at the helm of Silicon Alley amid ...

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Bill Thompson, A Most Worthy Challenger: Time To Unite Behind de Blasio

Kingmaker Dante has the most coveted afro in politics. Watch out for Lhota’s scissors [Black Star News Editorial]   It’s Bill de Blasio to ...

New York’s 46-Percenters: Living Near Poverty Line

[Op-Ed: NYC Mayoral Race 2013] Mayor Bloomberg deserves credit for many of the administration’s efforts to diversify the city’s economy from its over-reliance on ...

Mayor Bloomberg Needs To Remember We’re In A Democracy

There was a time when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended a meeting at the White House, where President Barack Obama asked Rev. Al ...

Rep. Jeffries Hails News That U.S. Could Monitor NYPD If Stop-And-Frisk Ruled Unconstitutional

Attorney General Eric Holder On Wednesday, June 12, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a 21-page brief citing the possibility of appointing a federal ...

The Big Decision: Stop-And-Frisk Must Go

[Election 2013: Speaking Truth To Power] As New York City residents await Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s decision in the Floyd v. City of New ...

Some NYPD See Black Neighborhoods As Enemy ‘Combat Zones’

[Brooklyn: Op-ED] Mayor Bloomberg And Commissioner Kelly Act Blind   With the death of Kimani Gray, as we sit here in the aftermath of ...

Profits Vs. Blood: Why NRA and Republicans Oppose Gun Control

[Speaking Truth To Power]  On Wednesday, President Barack Obama introduced a number of initiatives to combat the scourge of gun violence plaguing the country—especially ...