Tag result for article published on Thu March 14 2013 8:32 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: black boys, black youth, Bloods, Brooklyn, candlelight vigil, East Flatbush, gangs, Kimani Gray, marches, New York City, New York Daily News, news, NYC, NYPD, police brutality, protests, race, racism, riots, shooting
VIDEO: Protest in the 67th Precinct of NYPD after Kimani Gray was shot and killed after police reported he pointed a loaded gun a police officers. On Monday night, March 11, 2013, residents in Brooklyn, New York held a candlelight vigil for 16-year-old Kimani Gray, an African American teenager who was shot and killed by [...]
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Posted in Crimes Notebook
Tag result for article published on Wed May 04 2011 9:41 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: arrogance, friends, ignorance, prejudice, racism, relationships
Dear Paul B, My son is very popular, and a great kid. Kids are attracted to his smile, outgoing attitude, and most of all — his “courage.” Sam attends a middle class school in the northwest ‘burbs, where 90% of the students are WASPs. We are not. Recently a very nice family from Nigeria moved [...]
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Posted in Ask Paul B!
Tag result for article published on Tue August 25 2009 5:32 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: boycott, boycotting, Glenn Beck, racism
On a July 28, 2009 broadcast on FOX & Friends, responding to President Barack Obama’s involvement in the Henry Louis Gates, Jr/Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, Glenn Beck called President Barack Obama a racist. ThenColor of Change, a black political advocacy group, launched a campaign urging advertisers on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show to pull [...]
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Posted in Confrontations
Tag result for article published on Tue July 28 2009 4:03 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: arrest, racism, racist
Regarding President barack Obama
‘I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again’
Kelly King, Cambridge Police Department
‘COMRADES IN ARMS’
Cambridge cops support their own.
CNN
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Tag result for article published on Thu July 23 2009 3:57 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: black activism, break-in, burglary, police response, race debate, racism
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates has demanded an apology from Sgt. James Crowley, who had responded to the home near Harvard University to investigate a report of a burglary-in-progress and demanded the scholar show him identification. Police say the 58-year-old at first refused and then accused the officer of racism. Gates said Crowley walked into [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon June 29 2009 10:09 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: discrimination, racism, reverse discrimination, Supreme Court
BIG WIN FOR FIREFIGHTERS In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the white firefighters in the Ricci v. DeStefano case, overturning a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling signed by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. SOTOMAYOR HAD IGNORED WHITE FIREFIGHTERS PLEA FOR REVERSE DISCRIMINATION The high profile case involved charges of reverse [...]
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Posted in Gov
Tag result for article published on Tue May 26 2009 3:00 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: discrimination, racism, reverse discrimination
UPDATE (June 29, 2009): See The Cardinal: Supreme Court Reverse: Overturns Sotomayor Ruling Ignoring Firefighter Discrimination Claim … In February 2008, Judge Sonya Sotomayor (Barack Obama’s May 26, 2009 pick for The Supreme Court) joined the unsigned opinion of a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court’s [...]
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