NEW YORK — A New York woman is being charged with beating her 5-year-old son to death for breaking her television while playing Nintendo Wii. The New York Daily News reports: Kim Crawford, 21, smacked Jamar Johnson in his back and stomach on June 13 “harder than I’ve ever hit him,” she told cops. Crawford […]
A former college softball player is saying that she was kicked off the team for posting rap lyrics on her Facebook page. Caitlin Ortiz, 19, is seeking unspecified monetary damages for discrimination. She alleges that her coach, Susan Cassidy-Lyke, degraded her on numerous occasions because she was the only Hispanic on the team. “Susan Cassidy-Lyke […]
New York is on the verge of becoming the sixth state in the union to legalize gay marriage, as soon as this week. The State Senate is one vote away from passing the law which was shot down two years ago in a Democratic-led Senate. In two years, opinion amongst New York state residents has […]
According to data from last year’s Census, the Black population in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Clinton Hill has decreased by one-third over the last decade. NY1 reports: The findings also reflect a trend in black migration to the suburbs. New York City’s black population declined by 2 percent. It is […]
NEW YORK-African-Americans pay a lot more for auto-insurance than drivers of other races according to a new study. The study was for male drivers in New York, where auto insurance tends to be very high in poor and working class neighborhoods. The San Francisco Gate reports: 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org surveyed 600 male Manhattan residents in conducting this […]
A recent article on the New York Times is about the way in which college graduates are facing greater and greater difficulty in finding employment after leaving school. The New York Times reports: Employment rates for new college graduates have fallen sharply in the last two years, as have starting salaries for those who can […]
NEW YORK – Marie Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault charges for lighting her 6-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual to get rid of evil spirits. The New York Daily News reports: Lauradin, 30, admitted pouring rum over daughter Frantzcia Santil’s head during the June 2009 incident in the basement of her Queens […]
NEW YORK, New York — Wings Academy high-school basketball star Deonte Houston was charged with first-degree robbery after he and three others allegedly stole an iPod from a 15-year-old boy. NY Daily News reports: The 17-year-old point guard and his cohorts rode their bikes into Pugsley Creek Park in Clason Point at 6 p.m. Sunday […]
NEW YORK–A 41-year-old naked white man who was caught on tape yelling the N-word and attacking black passengers in a NYC subway had to undergo psychological evaluations.
New York — A tony Queens enclave once home to a host of black stars – including Jackie Robinson and James Brown – became a historic district Tuesday on the first day of Black History Month.
