Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer was today joined by affected tenants,legal service providers and homeless advocates, to demand that the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) put an end to its bureaucratic paralysis and address the dire housing crisis impacting 3,000 families whose Section 8 vouchers were retracted without notice in December. Borough President Stringer also released a comprehensive 6-point rescue plan that deals with both the long and short term implications of this crisis and urged the city and Housing Authority to act immediately on behalf of these high-need, at-risk families.
“The Housing Authority pulled the wool over its eyes for the better part of a year, handing out Section-8 vouchers that they knew they couldn’t honor and promising 3,000 struggling New Yorkers a chance for a safe, affordable home that never arrived,” said Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. “Now, it’s 20 degrees outside and we have thousands of New York families – victims of domestic violence, key witnesses to ongoing police investigations and others – out on the street waiting for a rescue plan that the Housing Authority seems to be in no hurry to deliver.”
The Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition of Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm is set to release on January 20, 2010. The release comes just in time for Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and the Anniversary of Barack Obama’s Inauguration. A full summary of the book is pasted below this email.
Thousands of mourners filled Riverside Church on Wednesday for the funeral of Percy Sutton, a former Tuskegee Airman, a media mogul, power broker and pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X.
Among the dignitaries gathered at the church were Attorney General Eric Holder, Gov. David Paterson, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer. Two of Malcolm X’s daughters also attended. Keep reading →
Y.M.I.C is a program providing young people with high-quality training in media making and in community service. In this program, youth receive advanced media-making and media-communication training. Program
participants learn media production, leadership, community outreach and media literacy skills.
Participants also get to engage with New York City grassroots, arts and cultural organizations. The students that participate in this program meet twice a week, the program starts January 27th and last till June 5.
Y.M.I.C is the Youth Channel in-house training program that directs and covers Defense Against Media Nonsense.
Defense Against Media Nonsense is a show that allows young people to capture what is news to them. It is news casting that is done in documentary format, and told through the lens by youth, for youth.For
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A born collaborator, Craig Harris has created and performed with such jazz greats as Sun Ra, Sam Rivers, Lester Bowie, Abdullah Ibrahim, Makanda Ken McIntyre, Jaki Byard, Cecil Taylor and Muhal Richard Abrams. Although his career is clearly rooted in the world of progressive jazz, Craighas successfully branched out into multimedia and performance art as composer, performer, conceptualist, curator and artistic director. He has blended his musical talent and innovation with that of other musicians and vocalists in and out of the jazz world as well as with the words of acclaimed poets and the works of world-class choreographers. Keep reading →
Harlem supported Thompson’s’ run in 2009 for mayor, will Harlem support him 2013?
Two months after he shocked New York by his narrow loss to Mayor Bloomberg, William Thompson has decided on his next step in politics – throwing his hat back into the ring for 2013.
“I’m not going to disappear,” Thompson told the Daily News. “The city of New York is a place that I love. And I think that I am uniquely qualified for the position.”
Thompson’s political star skyrocketed after he finished 4.4 points behind Bloomberg in the November mayoral election, even though many New Yorkers assumed the mayor would coast to an easy third term.
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The Taller Boricua presents “(IN)TANGIBLE,” a group exhibition of 11 contemporary New York artists whose work blurs the boundaries between states of permanence and permeability, collapsing the distinctions within the visible and invisible forces that surround our lives. Keep reading →
State officials and cops vowed Sunday to crack down on bodegas and bootleggers that illegally sell fruit punch spiked with booze.
Gov. Paterson said he will unleash State Liquor Authority inspectors on the delis and variety stores that hawk the illicit concoction dubbed “Nutcracker” after a Daily News investigation uncovered the practice. Keep reading →
In the Best Possible Light: Herman Leonard’s Jazz features masterworks in black and white photography by Herman Leonard, whose pictures of jazz icons Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, and Thelonious Monk—among many others—make him the dean of jazz photographers. This exhibition of Herman Leonard’s jazz pictures honors a great photographer and some of the most beautiful photographs ever taken. “I want to show jazz artists in the best possible light,” says Leonard, “to tell their truth but to tell it in terms of beauty.” Keep reading →
Curious why so many seemed to know so much about Google’s new Nexus One before its official rollout on today? Well, that’s because VIPs like venture capitalist Fred Wilson have been carrying them around for more than two weeks.
“In mid December as holiday gifts and cards were arriving daily at our office, I received a gift from Google. It was a Nexus One,” Wilson wrote on his blog, adding that Google asked him to “keep quiet” about it until Jan. 5.
We’ll learn more about the pricing of the phone and Google’s marketing strategy at a press conference this afternoon, but until then quite a few members of the digerati are giving the new Google phone a workout.
For nearly a century, Harlem has been synonymous with black urban America. Given its magnetic and growing appeal to younger black professionals and its historic residential enclaves and cultural institutions, the neighborhood’s reputation as the capital of black America seems unlikely to change soon.
But the neighborhood is in the midst of a profound and accelerating shift. In greater Harlem, which runs river to river, and from East 96th Street and West 106th Street to West 155th Street, blacks are no longer a majority of the population — a shift that actually occurred a decade ago, but was largely overlooked.
Mammograms should begin at 40 for women with an average risk of breast cancer and by 30 for high-risk women, according to guidelines released on Monday by two groups that specialize in breast imaging, contradicting controversial guidelines from a U.S. advisory panel last year.
The joint recommendations from the American College of the Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging take into account the success of annual mammography screening starting at 40, said Dr. Carol Lee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, whose study appears in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Keep reading →
Veteran CBS reporter reflects on his treasured relationship with Civil Rights Pioneer
In January of 1970, Percy Sutton put up my bail after I had been arrested.
We had never met. Actually, Percy had talked to R. Peter Straus, then the head of WMCA, and convinced him that they should both bail out me and Felipe Luciano. It was about a week after the Young Lords, the group Felipe and I were with, had occupied a Methodist church on Lexington and 111th in El Barrio for ten days.
Some background: the Young Lords Party was an activist Puerto Rican community group that had started in the summer of 1969, and would soon spread to several cities in the United States and Puerto Rico.
One of the largest operators of affordable multi-family housing in Upper Manhattan and the boroughs is suing the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development for at least $4 million for lost income tied to deferred rent increases in subsidized housing vouchers at three apartment complexes in East Harlem.
New Jersey-based Urban American Management, through its affiliate Putnam Holding, claims that the city agency breached a contract by delaying approval of rent increases for a special class of Section 8 subsidized housing vouchers in the three complexes.
In addition, the petition filed in New York State Supreme Court Monday claims HPD bowed to pressure from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and revoked approved rent increases that were between 3 and 23 percent to the apartments with tenants holding enhanced Section 8 vouchers at the three complexes.
In case you managed to avoid this horrible news over the holiday weekend, on Saturday a 9-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in a Harlem housing project while playing a video game with a 25-year-old man with a history of mental illness. What’s even more distressing is that the suspect, Alejandro Morales, has a history of mental illness, a lengthy rap sheet, and spent Christmas Eve pacing in a Times Square movie theater ranting about he “felt like killing someone.”
It was standing room only on the evening of Wednesday, December 9th, as hundreds gathered at Harlem’s historic National Black Theatre as hundreds gathered to commemorate World AIDS Day 2009 during a festive program presented by the Harlem HIV AIDS Services Consortium (Iris House, SAGE, Canaan Baptist Church, Bailey House, Inc., UPTOWN Healthlink and Copasetic Women), in partnership with North General Hospital’s Department of Special Services (formerly Department of HIV/AIDS). The theme of this year’s program was “Removing Barriers, Addressing Stigma.” The program highlighted the challenges that prevent Harlem residents from getting tested for HIV/AIDS, seeking medical care, and disclosing their HIV status to their loved ones. WBLS (107.5 FM) radio personality Dr. Bob Lee (see photo) served as the event’s master of ceremonies. Speakers included the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Dr. Monica Sweeney, Debra Levine, vice president of community relations for the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, and Dr. Samuel Daniel, president and CEO of North General Hospital. Keep reading →
The nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, dominated American magazine covers last year, but for titles targeting African Americans, getting marketers’ attention in this recession has been a tougher proposition.
Black-interest titles to some extent suffered from the same issues facing other targeted media. In a recession, advertisers tend to first cut those outlets that they see as “nice to haves.” Many are independents that lack the resources and scale of multi-title publishers.
Amid this climate, urban music magazine Vibe folded at the end of June after its private-equity owner couldn’t refinance its debt. Ebony and Jet’s ad pages plunged 40 percent and 38 percent (respectively) for the first nine months of the year, per Publishers Information Bureau; while parent Johnson Publishing battled reports that Ebony was for sale. And the dropoff in luxury ad spen ding forced Uptown, a chain of regional magazines aimed at affluent blacks, to scale back its ambitions. Keep reading →
‘Tis the day before Christmas, and for some New Yorkers, that means last-minute shopping, airport delays and hectic trips out of town. But for the 212 Mormon missionaries who call this city home, this is a season of intense faith, and a chance to bring others into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. WNYC’s Arun Venugopal followed two young men who are known as Mormon Elders.
REPORTER: Elder Ang and Elder Raymond start their day at 6:30, with a morning prayer, and exercise, after which they eat, shower, and study the Bible together. By 10 they’re in their suits, and on their knees, before setting out on the city.
RAYMOND: Father, please bless and prompt us to talk to those people that are willing and more apt to receive our message this morning.
Murder charges have come in the stabbing death of a nine-year-old New Jersey boy.
His adult cousin in now in custody, accused of killing the child – over a video game.
Police say 25-year-old Alejandro Morales stabbed his nine-year-old cousin, Anthony Maldonado, over a video game. Morales was placed under arrest at the 26th Precinct stationhouse, but that is no consolation to the young boy’s mother.
Maldonado’s mother, Dolores Juela, is heartbroken and confused, unable to make sense of the shocking stabbing death of her son.
A boy from Palisades Park in Bergen County was stabbed to death in a Harlem apartment early this morning, New York City Police said.
Anthony Maldonado had been visiting his uncle, the boy’s mother, Dolores Beatriz Juelas, said today as she wept inside the Palisades Park apartment she shared with her son.
Juelas, 35, said the boy’s uncle had been renting a room from a woman in Harlem who had three sons who were living with her, ages 17, 20 and 24.
Anthony was playing a skateboarding video game with the three brothers when the 17-and 20-year-old left to get food, she said. The brothers told Anthony to stay in the apartment because it was cold outside, Juelas said.
Anthony was attacked in the apartment, then knocked on the door of his sleeping uncle’s room for help.
According to the New York Daily News, the NYPD have not made any arrests, but sources told the Daily News a man in his 20s is being questioned.
I was just talking about this after looking at some football games during the holidays and realized that the commercials were louder than the game announcers:
Anyone who watches TV can tell you: When the commercials come on, it feels like you’re being blasted by volume. At some point, we’ve all reached for the mute button, because those ads are so much louder than the shows surrounding them.
But do TV commercials really have to be louder than the TV programs? That’s what Congress is deciding right now.
Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal’s a deal.
As the economy sputters along, municipalities struggling to fix roads, fund schools and pay bills increasingly are rescinding tax abatements to companies that don’t hire enough workers, that lay them off or that close up shop. At the same time, they’re sharpening new incentive deals, leaving no doubt what is expected of companies and what will happen if they don’t deliver.
“We will roll out the red carpet as much as we can (but) they are going to honor the contract,” said Brendon Gallagher, an alderman in DeKalb, Ill., where Target Corp. got abatements from the city, county, school district and other taxing bodies after promising at least 500 jobs at a local distribution center.
So when the company came up 66 workers short in 2009, Target got word its next tax bill would be jumping almost $600,000 — more than half of which goes to the local school district, where teachers and programs have been cut as coffers dried up.
The memorial service for Percy E. Sutton, the legendary Harlem politician and mentor to Gov. David A. Paterson, has caused a major scheduling headache: The service is scheduled to start just hours before Mr. Paterson is to deliver his 2010 State of the State address.
The family of Mr. Sutton, a former Manhattan borough president and Harlem elder statesman who died on Saturday, is holding his memorial service Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Riverside Church in Manhattan.
But Mr. Paterson is scheduled to deliver his address at 1 p.m. in Albany, 140 miles to the north, to an audience of hundreds of lawmakers and dignitaries.
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