A Sonny street, ‘official’ or not
Ever since City Council Speaker Christine Quinn struck the name of a Bedford-Stuyvesant activist off of a street renaming bill, storm clouds have been brewing. Last Saturday, the rain fell. Chanting, “Whose Streets? Our Streets!” Bed-Stuy residents re-named Gates Avenue after militant activist Sonny Abubadika Carson, defying a City Council vote. The fray over the street renaming was for some, symbolic of a power struggle between the predominantly Black Brooklyn community and the city over the community’s right to define itself.
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Drive-by corporate skullduggery?
Back in July 2002, it was announced with much fanfare that Harlem was to have, after 50 years, car dealerships; some of them, if not all, would be “minority owned.” The proposed dealerships would be the first new-car dealerships in Harlem since the 1960s,” Robert Potamkin, co-chairman of Potamkin Auto Group explained to Crain Communications. The Potamkin Group purchased the entire block of city-owned land at 127th Street and Second Avenue. According to the Crain story, the “value of the real estate and buildings could reach $50 to $60 million.” The facility was called the ...
A Row Of Fools
Whether or not Michael Bloomberg inserts himself into the mix of those who have become and will become candidates for the Presidency of the United States is unimportant. What is important is that there ...
Maddox and the Chinese: Making a legal record
North Carolina’s disbarment of Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong on June 16, 2007 is akin to the December 2, 1858 hanging of John Brown, a white freedom fighter, for conducting a raid on the United...
Fashion on Fulton celebrates community
Fashion and Fulton and Friends will hold its fifth annual fundraiser to benefit the Brooklyn Community Housing and Services (BCHS) on Thursday, June 7 (6PM) at DUMBO’s celebrated St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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