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A weekly one hour program, airing on Channel 7, that's dedicated to covering the issues and interests of the African-American community in the New York tri-state area. THIS WEEK on Here and Now: May 15, 2016 Coming up, "Bring Back Our Girls," the push for more international support to find nearly 300 hundred kidnapped Nigerian school girls. |
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He told the Rock Hill Herald newspaper this week that he plans to petition the York County Council for action soon. Deese is circulating an online petition to get the city and county elected bodies to pass an ordinance “to protect our women and children” in restrooms and locker rooms. |
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The high-profile legal spat over North Carolina’s so-called bathroom bill may be inspiring – not deterring – some of the law’s fiercest advocates to push for similar legislation in their own towns. Just hours after North Carolina was sued Monday over HB2 by the federal government, a pastor in Rock.... |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police officer tried to prevent the arrests that would embroil his department in a national furor over policing in schools, but his colleagues and supervisors refused to change course. They insisted on arresting children as young as 9 years old at their elementary.... |
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Jennifer Pinckney speaks beside an image of her late husband, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the victims of the shootings at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, during the unveiling of the mural on a building a few blocks from the sanctuary on Friday, May 13, 2016. |
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The widow of the pastor gunned down with eight of his parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church last year sees the spirit of her late husband, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, in a new mural honoring the victims. The mural by artist Tripp Derrick Barnes, unveiled Friday on a.... |
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Freetown, Sierra Leone | AFP | Friday 5/13/2016 - 18:41 GMT. Sierra Leone's capital is in the grip of a fortnight-long drought that has forced residents to spend hours searching for water, often risking their lives by drinking contaminated supplies. Activists have warned that schoolchildren are.... |
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NASHVILLE A Tennessee police officer tried to prevent the arrests that would embroil his department in a national furor over policing in schools, but his colleagues and supervisors refused to change course. They insisted on arresting children as young as 9 years old at their elementary school and.... |
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An image of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the victims of the June 2015 shootings at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., is seen on a mural on a building in Charleston a few blocks from the church on Friday, May 13, 2016. The mural was created by artist Tripp Derrick Barnes to honor the nine.... |
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Freetown (AFP) - Sierra Leone's capital is in the grip of a fortnight-long drought that has forced residents to spend hours searching for water, often risking their lives by drinking contaminated supplies. Activists have warned that schoolchildren are having to spend entire nights looking for water, with no end in sight for the crisis. |
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Bruce Smith Widow of church victim: Mural captures husband's spirit. An image of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the victims of the June 2015 shootings at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., is seen on a mural on a building in Charleston a few blocks from the church on Friday, May 13, 2016. |
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The widow of the pastor gunned down with eight of his parishioners at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church last year sees the spirit of her late husband, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, in a new mural honoring the victims. The mural by artist Tripp Derrick Barnes, unveiled Friday on a building a few blocks.... |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police officer tried to prevent the arrests that would embroil his department in a national furor over policing in schools, but his colleagues and supervisors refused to change course. They insisted on arresting children as young as 9 years old at their elementary.... |
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A third top official in Ken Paxton’s office was kept on the payroll after she left the agency — this time for nearly six months — state records show, raising more questions about the attorney general’s use of a benefit designed for state employees in extraordinary circumstances. |
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The first wave of what could become thousands of Cuban refugees have begun arriving in El Paso and across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as relations between the United States and Cuba continue to normalize and Cubans fear losing their special status as immigrants, officials said. |
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Reporter Nick Kindelsperger is eating tacos every day in May in an attempt to complete six challenges posed by his co-workers.
Today Nick tackles Challenge No. 2: Can you make al pastor at home? Tacos eaten: 4. Restaurants visited: 1 (a taco truck while waiting for the al pastor tacos to be.... |
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Do we blame the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for not discerning what the name of PPCRV truly signifies and that its attention is on voting, not on vote tabulation? Or do we blame the oddly-named Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) for misrepresenting itself as a vote counting.... |
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Just this morning two of my Facebook friends put up posts suggesting the world is going to end because President Obama has directed public schools to allow trans kids to use the potty of their choice.
Now, I know other people have said what I'm about to say, so I'll make it quick and I'll try to keep it eloquent: I'm a pastor. |
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In this edition of Neighborhood Eats, we're headed to Brooklyn for a new twist on the tastes of the Caribbean. That's where we find the Food Sermon Kitchen, where Rawlston Williams pays tribute to the food of his native St. Vincent and the Grenadines and then takes it to a new level with his formal culinary training. |
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Dilma Rousseff acknowledged supporters after Brazil’s Senate voted to suspend her on Thursday. Credit Eraldo Peres/Associated Press. A profile of Ms. Temer in Veja, a newsmagazine, caused a stir by glowingly referring to her as “pretty, demure and of the home.” It said Mr. |
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A new mural honoring the nine black parishioners fatally shot in a Charleston, South Carolina, church has been completed a little more than a month before the shooting’s first anniversary. The mural by noted artist Tripp Derrick Barnes appears on the side of a building a few.... |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police officer tried to prevent the arrests that would embroil his department in a national furor over policing in schools, but his colleagues and supervisors refused to change course. They insisted on arresting children as young as 9 years old at their elementary.... |
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A University of Georgia student who survived a crash that killed four of her friends has been moved to an Atlanta rehabilitation center, a center spokeswoman said. Agnes Kim was admitted to the brain unit of the Shepherd Center in Atlanta on Thursday, Jane Sanders said in a.... |
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A University of Georgia student who survived a crash that killed four of her friends has been moved to an Atlanta rehabilitation center, a center spokeswoman said. Agnes Kim was admitted to the brain unit of the Shepherd Center in Atlanta on Thursday, Jane Sanders said in a.... |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police officer tried to prevent the arrests that would embroil his department in a national furor over policing in schools, but his colleagues and supervisors refused to change course. They insisted on arresting children as young as 9 years old at their elementary.... |
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