NEW YORK-Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook was sworn in as the first African American to be the White House Ambassador For Religious Freedom. The New York Daily News reports: She was the first woman to serve as a chaplain for the NYPD, a position she has held since 1990. After 9/11, she helped traumatized police officers […]
BRONX-Kool DJ Herc, the deejay many credit with founding hip hop music is very ill without health insurance to help him pay his medical bills. DJ Premier of the group Gangstarr said on his Sirius radio show: For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing […]
Fox News pundit, Glenn Beck has heavily criticized the Bronx’s Co-Op city, a cooperative housing development that offers affordable housing. He compared the development to communist Russia. On his Fox show he said: Once you say there’s a place where everyone’s life is interchangeable, everyone then has exactly the same stuff, which sounds like these […]
SARATOGA-New York Daily News Details are unfolding in the case of Latino Skidmore College student, Justin Tavarez,  charged with a hate crime for smashing a plate over a white man’s head. The New York Daily News reports: A college student from the Bronx has been charged with a felony hate crime upstate after smashing a […]
Despite its lovely name, Valentine Ave. in the Bronx is one of the worst drug spots in the city, so notorious that the U.S. drug czar brought along six bodyguards when he visited in June. A two-block stretch of Valentine, just steps from the historic cottage where Edgar Allan Poe lived, has come to resemble Washington […]
Bronx voters sent scandal-scarred state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. back to Mamaroneck on Tuesday.
