Hundreds of people rallied in New York City on Thursday evening to call for justice for Saheed Vassell, an unarmed black man who was shot by police the day before. Activists gathered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where New York City police shot at the 34-year-old […]
New York City is known for its quirky yet harmless characters. That’s how residents in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn neighborhood where Saheed Vassell was killed by police in a hail of bullets, described the 34-year man who suffered from mental health issues. Source: 5 things to know […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers responding to reports of a man threatening people with a gun on Wednesday fatally shot a man carrying a metal pipe, mistaking it for a firearm, police said. It happened just before 5 p.m. in the Crown Heights neighborhood […]
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman – leading a coalition of 18 Attorneys General and six cities and the bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors – filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from demanding citizenship information in the 2020 decennial Census. Demanding citizenship information […]
Here’s a small glimmer of hope for victims of domestic violence: On Saturday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the passage of new legislation which requires convicted domestic abusers to surrender any and all firearms, and prohibits them from obtaining or renewing a firearm license. Though […]
On Monday, when the NBA’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City opens its doors on World Autism Awareness Day, it will be as the first sensory-inclusive retail store in the world. The NBA and KultureCity have teamed up to make the NBA […]
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