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“ERASE RACISM” ORGANIZATION CALLS ON POLITICAL LEADERS TO ADDRESS HOUSING DISCRIMINATION ON LONG ISLAND

[New York News\Housing Discrimination] ERASE Racism’s fair housing investigation led to successful litigation resulting in settlements with real estate companies in both Nassau and ...

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Les Payne, former Newsday editor, inducted into Deadline Club Hall of Fame

Les Payne. Photo: Flickr Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize winner whose four decades at Newsday were spent as much as a chronicler of some ...

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Dick Gregory — Speaking Truth To Power In 1971 Interview

Dick Gregory. Photo-Gregory’s Facebook page Gem from the archives: The following are excerpts from an interview with Dick Gregory by Les Payne, published in ...

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Les Payne: A Journalist in Full

Les Payne. Photo. SUNY Oswego-Flickr [From The archives] Originally published in Northeast Magazine, 1986   For a young black student fresh from “separate but ...

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Jimmy Breslin’s Mission Was Exposing Injustice — Cuomo

Breslin. Photo-Wikipedia [Tribute To Breslin] I grew up with Jimmy Breslin – he was a great friend of my father’s. His first wife, Rosemary, ...

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Passing: Robert “RK” Knight A Great Friend Was One of The Smartest Journalist I Knew

Happier days: David Henderson, Robert Knight, and the author [In Memorium] A Giant of New York Journalism is no more. Robert Knight, a major ...