A woman was clinging to life Sunday after a shopping cart — pushed off a ledge by a group of teens in East Harlem — plummeted four stories and landed on her head, cops and witnesses said.
Woman near death after teens toss shopping cart four stories outside Target
EDGAR SANDOVAL, JOE KEMP
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:53:14 GMT
The political outlook of blacks in America has undergone dramatic swings in the last ten years — from the depths of powerlessness during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the zenith with the election of the first black president, Barack Obama. Now, with another presidential election looming, blacks are again confronting new issues as they judge [...]
Black and white American voters live in 1 country, but 2 different worlds
The Admin
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:31 GMT
Harlem - News October 29, 2011Columbia plays up connections to city in bid for M'ville funding (Columbia Spectator) The Statue of Liberty celebrated her 125th birthday Friday, with a towering cake, military salutes and the joyful tears of 125 newly minted American citizens. Globetrotting food, up Harlem way (Financial Times) City of Exquisite Decadence (Counterpunch) | ||||||
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African-American - News October 30, 2011Teena Marie (KMJM-FM Saint Louis) Singer John Legend is one of 50 prominent African Americans to be featured in the National Portrait Gallery's "The Black List." The photographs of a group of prominent African Americans will be featured in a new exhibit in the National Portrait Gallery. Alabama immigration fight recalls civil rights era (Deseret News) Walter's World: Theatre, Bearden and Jazz (Harlem World) Albeit, this is not February. However, October is the month that England celebrate this holiday. Local Organization fights breast cancer among African American women (Milwaukee Courier Online) | |||
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The MTA has emergency action plans in place to handle all sorts of mayhem, like blizzards, hurricanes, power outages - and egg-wielding pranksters.
MTA service may stop for Halloween mayhem, snow and power outages
Pete Donohue
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:13:17 GMT
Apple revealed it has a staggering $81.5 billion in cash in the bank, the Daily Mail reports. That's more than more money than even the U.S. government has, documents show.
Apple's $81.5 billion bank account is bigger than U.S. government's
KATHRYN KATTALIA
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:39:41 GMT
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African-American - News October 29, 2011October marks National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Is there cause for celebration? For many reasons, the answer is a resounding "yes." Since 1990, the rate of death from breast cancer has been dropping. In the News: 'Guinness' Names Samuel L. Jackson... (Black Enterprise) Judge Approves Historic Settlement For Black Farmers (KFOXTV) Black Kidney Donors More Likely to Be Related to Recipients (IVillage) African-Americans Spreading Cancer Awareness (KJCT) "G.O.P. Is the new black" reads one. "Martin Luther King, Jr. Was a Republican" reads another. | |||
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We recently launched a series titled ”Prisons and Projects” which takes a look at these two monoliths and the effects they’ve had on the African American community.
We recently created an infographic titled: “Prison Facts.”
The figures here highlight America’s entirely unique approach to crime and punishment, where race, class, long sentences and industry collide to make the world’s largest and most expensive prison systems in the world.
Has America become a nation of prisoners?
Check out our Prisons and Projects series here.
Prison Facts: A Look Inside America’s Jail System
Johan Thomas
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:07:44 GMT
SACRAMENTO-Medro Johnson, African American employee of Sears Home Improvement Products in Natomas, California was awarded $52 million over racial harassment.
A co-worked of Johnson’s had said he was Johnson’s “masta” at a company picnic.
SacBee reports:
Johnson, an Elk Grove resident and a descendant of slaves, would later testify in court that he was humiliated to be referred to as a slave in front of his wife, son and daughter.
The panel awarded him $5.2 million in damages, including $2.2 million to compensate for lost earnings, pain and suffering.
Sears Employee Awarded $5.2 Million Over “Slave” Comment
Associated Press
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:35:43 GMT
At 23 years old, Nejdra Nance learned the woman she had called Mom for her entire life may have actually been her kidnapper. Nance – born Carlina White – disappeared from Harlem hospital in 1987, and reunited recently reunited with her birth parents. Never before in America had so much time lapsed between a kidnapping and a reunion.
In an exclusive interview with New York Magazine this week, White and her birth parents talk about why that reunion wasn't a happy ending.
There's the fact that White said she loves her alleged abductor Ann Pettway, who is behind bars and faces 20 years in prison if convicted of the kidnapping.
Then, there are the rumors of a falling out between her and her now-separated birth parents that centered around money.
Although the story has unfolded in a way that's sometimes been messy, the woman at the center of the saga tells New York Magazine she's happy that she finally knows the truth. “There was a part of me that wasn’t even there, and now I feel whole. Even in the beginning of the year, with all the drama and stuff, I was kind of cloudy," she said. "But now I know who I am. That’s the main thing—just to find out where you come from and who you are."
Read more at New York Magazine and the Huffington Post.
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Carlina White, Kidnapped at Birth, Tells All
Jenée Desmond-Harris
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:26:00 GMT
A federal judge has reversed a decision that now gives the city permission to delay the FDNY entrance exam, originally scheduled for January.
Judge Reverses Course, Allows City To Postpone Fire Exam
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:37:55 GMT
In a blog entry at The Root DC, Editor Robert E. Pierre checks in on the reason for the Washington Redskins' popularity among blacks. He says that while the team's origins are rooted in racism, blacks became more accepting after the owners signed their first black players in 1962. Many of those players became ambassadors who helped stamp out the team's racist image.
The Washington Redskins franchise gave black Washingtonians plenty of reasons to loathe them. They were marketed as the "Team of the South." The band played "Dixie," a nod to Old South nostalgia.
There was no mention, of course, of the lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan or any of that unseemly business of denial of an education and basic human rights. But there didn’t need to be. The message was clear. The Redskins were the last segregated National Football League team.
But when the team finally relented in 1962, and began signing black players, the tide began to turn. These players became the team's ambassadors who turned around the image of a franchise that didn't want or deserve the support of the region's black residents.
Fast forward 50 years and the transition is complete. A new Washington Post poll found that two-thirds of African Americans have a favorable view of the team and four in 10 feel that way "strongly." Less than half of white fans have an overall favorable view of the franchise.
Read Robert E. Pierre's entire blog entry at The Root DC.
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Redskins Gave Black Fans Reasons to Dislike Them
Robert E. Pierre
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:16:00 GMT
An HIV/AIDS prevention agency in Harlem has launched a new campaign concentrating on a demographic that is not normally targeted: black heterosexual men. Its campaign posters can be seen throughout Central Harlem, East Harlem and the South Bronx, where its other branches are located. The poster, illustrating a brawn, black male standing poised is currently stationed at several bus shelters in the city.
The campaign is sponsored by the Iris House, a community-based organization that meets the needs of women, families and at-risk communities infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. The goal of the heterosexual male targeted campaign is to increase awareness, shared sexual responsibility, openness and honesty, according to the agency.
Though the 8-year-old agency was established to provide care for HIV-infected minority women, in October 2010, the Iris House decided to turn its focus to what Executive Director Ingrid Floyd called a “forgotten population.” Floyd said most HIV/AIDS programs target women or gay and bisexual men, but that the agency sought to “fill that gap,” by tailoring a program for black heterosexual men.
The campaign, dubbed “Keep It 100” is named after a commonly used phrase in the black community, which means to be honest.
The idea of targeting heterosexual men came about, after the agency analyzed data on their female clientele, which revealed that 90 percent of them said that they contracted HIV/AIDS from their male partners. Floyd said the Iris House decided to analyze the data after they noticed a pattern in its clientele and the national rates of women infected by men.
“We decided in 2008 when completing our strategic plan that we had to begin providing services for the men in their lives and in the community since no other places were targeting heterosexual men,” Floyd said.
“We wanted to figure out a way to engage the men in the prevention education so that we don’t just put the responsibility on the women.”
The black and Latino populations account for the highest rate of new infections per 100,000 people in the United States, according to 2009 federal data from the Centers for Disease Control. The center also cites New York as the state with the highest number of AIDS diagnoses. Among racial and gender demographics, black men accounted for the highest new infection cases, according to Centers for Disease Control data.
Central Harlem and East Harlem, where the Iris House does most of its outreach, have the second and third highest infection rate in the city, according to 2008 data from the New York City HIV/AIDS Annual Surveillance Statistics.
Patrick Wilson, a professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, said predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods like Central Harlem and East Harlem experience high rates of HIV/AIDS infections because of a prevalence in poverty, and socioeconomic disadvantages.
“People have less access to health care and HIV testing,” he said. Wilson said many members of the black community don’t have a desire to get tested because there is still a stigma of promiscuity that is lobbed with HIV/AIDS.
Nevertheless, Wilson cautioned that the high concentration of HIV infections among black, gay and bisexual men remains an epidemic in the community.
Among black men who have sex with men, there were more new HIV infections (52%) among young black men who have sex with men aged 13–29 years, than any other racial or ethnic age group, according to CDC data.
As a result, Wilson says, the Iris House should focus on black men in general, not just heterosexual men.
“Sexual identity is very fluid,” he said. “One can be gay today, and heterosexual tomorrow.”
Wilson said non-heterosexuality remains a stigma in the community, which may cause men not to disclose their sexual identity. For this reason, Wilson questions the effectiveness such a campaign could have, for the long run, in the community.
However, the Iris House also offers a program geared toward black men who have sex with men called d-Up!, a Centers for Disease Control approved intervention program. According to the agency’s website, d-Up! is designed to change social norms and perceptions of black MSM regarding condom use.
Men, both heterosexual and homosexual, report more negative attitudes about condom use than do women, according to data from the American Psychological Association.
Floyd said the Keep It 100 campaign and the agency’s other outreach programs stress the importance of partners engaging in healthy conversations about sex and their HIV status, “before going to the bedroom.”
“It’s the only way to make sure that you are being responsible for yourself,” Floyd said. “That’s the message we want people to get.”
Men who come to the Iris House are encouraged to participate in group workshops, where they are shown videos that encourage them to avoid unprotected sex and be honest about their sexual history with their partners. The agency also provides one-on-one counseling and free testing. Floyd said the Iris House does community outreach, and supplies free condoms to local barbershops, beauty shops, and local businesses.
The agency is also using technology as a means of marketing its Keep It 100 campaign. Around the city, the campaign posters feature small bar codes that can lead smart phone users to the campaign’s website. From there, Floyd says, they can get additional information about the program and its services.
The Iris House was established in 1993, and was named after an AIDS advocate who died of the disease in the 1980s. Until recently, the agency exclusively focused on infected women and their families. Within a year, Floyd said the Iris House hopes to have 75 to 100 men participating in the Keep It 100 one-on-one and group workshops.
The Keep It 100 campaign is funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
Harlem HIV Prevention Agency Targets Straight Black Men
Gerren Keith Gaynor
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:32:06 GMT
TAMPA-Hood-Lynked entertainment a Tampa, Florida entertainment company is promoting “Da First Eva Coon-O-Ween Party.”
While the party seems to be from a African American company for African American club-goers, the term “coon” is considered a racial slur. It is not clear why the party is called “Coon-O-Ween” other that the raccoon on the flyer.
DeadSpin reports:
Not so much. A couple of tipsters have alerted us to Talib’s participation in “Da First Eva Coon-O-Ween Party,” a Tampa-based Halloween party/wack rap show that’s scheduled for Sunday, when the Bucs are on a bye. (Click here to view the full flyer.) For $40, per the ad, you can see Tom G, Famous Kid Brick, Tae Bae Bae, Teddy P, Ms. Heather Marie, Rated R, and Young AJ, with a complementary buffet. “Aquib [sic] Talib” is listed as a special guest, with “other Bucs guests” promised on the flyer.
UPDATE: The Bucs emailed us a statement. “Hi there. I wanted to inform you that Aqib is not involved in the event.” Noted.
Florida Promoters Throw “Coon-O-Ween” Party
Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:59:47 GMT
A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty today to being part of a black market kidney ring stretching from Israel to NYC. Levy Itzhak Rosenbaum, 60, admitted that he bought kidneys for cheap in Israel then sold them to needy people in America for huge sums of money. "I am what you call a matchmaker...I've never had a failure," he was caught on tape telling an FBI informant posing as a potential client. [ more › ]
Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty To Being Black Market Kidney Broker
Ben Yakas
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:59:06 GMT
One day after Andrew Lopez (18), Kristian Lopez (17), and Jonathan Carrasquillo (22) were arrested for the rooftop shooting that killed pregnant mom Zurana Horton, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Joe Hynes attended "A Cup of Joe with Joe" in East Flatbush with Assemblyman Karim Camara and Councilman Jumaane Williams.
I asked DA Hynes the question folk in Brownsville have been asking: Will there be a plea deal available for Ms. Horton's killers?
"There will be no plea bargains, at all," said DA Hynes. "They have crossed the line. I have lots of programs for people before they cross the line. But, if you use a gun to kill one of our people, or use a gun to hurt one of our people, no plea bargain."
Rev. Al Sharpton will eulogize Zurana Horton on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 at Cornerstone Baptist Church located at 570 Lewis Avenue. The wake will be 3:30-5:30pm. The funeral will be 5:30-7:30pm.
DA Hynes: No Plea Deal for Killers of Hero Mom Zurana Horton
Mary Alice Miller
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:04:26 GMT
African-American - News October 28, 2011Judge approves settlement for black farmers (Reuters) The Downtown Writer's Center is hosting two poets in conjunction with the Syracuse University Humanities Center. African-American Genealogy: The Best No-Cost Websites (Booker Rising) Peta attacked for 'insulting' lawsuit for 'slave' whales (The First Post) Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Sean Combs and Serena Williams now have a place in the National Portrait Gallery in a new show featuring leading black figures from entertainment, politics, sports and business. Parkway program stresses self-checks for breast cancer (The Decatur Daily) Tennessee Agency Charges 86-Year Old Veteran An Unconstitutional Poll Tax To Obtain Voter ID (ThinkProgress) | ||
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The NYPD officer who pepper sprayed Occupy Wall Street protestors for no apparent reason last month, has been transferred out of his station to work in Staten Island.
The officer, Anthony Bologna, has been reassigned from his position of Deputy Inspector to Special Projects Coordinator. He will also lose 10 paid vacation days, docked from his $154,000 annual salary.
Since the incident, two videos showing Bologna’sunprovoked use of pepper-spray surfaced and went viral sparking outrage from protestors and mediaalike.
As an act of retribution, the hackers group Anonymous identified Bologna and leaked his personal information including his address, phone number, and names of known family members.
Cop Who Pepper Sprayed OWS Protestors, Exiled To Staten Island
NewsOne Staff
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:36:09 GMT
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Harlem - News October 27, 2011Here (The Real Deal) Five Things You Need to Know Today, Oct. 27 (Patch) Harlem Arts Alliance a oeHarlem Miles Marathon Arts Weeka (Harlem World) | |||
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The New York Police Department’s “Stop and Frisk” policy is under fire in the wake of a controversy involving a Staten Island officer caught on tape bragging about falsely arresting a Black man after a stop.
See als0: Pepper Spray NYPD Officer, Transferred To Work In Staten Island
See also: Harlem Is The Spiritual Home Of Black America
Calls for a federal investigation have ensued as the department’s figures detail a policy that predominantly focuses on Black and Hispanic males.
According to the latest figures, more than 90 percent of those stopped in the Bronx were Black or Hispanic males.
The NYPD says the practice is backed by a state criminal procedure law – allowing an officer to stop a person reasonably believed to have committed or about to commit a crime.
92 Percent Of Bronx “Stop And Frisk” Victims, Black Or Latino
NewsOne Staff
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:39:41 GMT
City officials were joined by municipal union leaders this afternoon to announce what's being described as the first step in "de-politicizing" the management of the city's public pension funds.
City Officials Announce Deal To "De-Politicize" Pension System
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:23:47 GMT
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African-American - News October 27, 2011When it comes to breast cancer, spreading the word means spreading the cure so talk with your loved ones this month about the importance of breast cancer screenings and the risk factors associated with the disease. Effort to document historic black community in Mannington earns... (NJ) The Top Twelve Reasons Why So Many Good Black Men are Still Single (Weekend) Bloomberg editor, historian join Pulitzer board (KFVS12) Controversial Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan condemned the killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Tuesday, warning that America and other western powers will soon face severe consequences for their support of the uprising that led to the dictator's death. | |||
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