DAs trained how to keep people in jail despite new bail law

DAs trained how to keep people in jail despite new bail law

By Jeff Coltin, City And State NY Jed Painter, an assistant district attorney from Nassau County, has been giving presentations on New York’s new state laws that limit bail, expand discovery in criminal cases and encourage speedy trials to audiences of lawyers and legislators across the state. But critics say Painter’s presentation helps prosecutors find […]

New York City Union Carpenters Team Up with Heart 9/11 to Rebuild the Bahamas in the Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian

Members of the New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters donate their time and skills to rebuilding efforts in the Bahamas following widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian

New York City Union Carpenters Team Up with Heart 9/11 to Rebuild the Bahamas in the Aftermath of Hurricane Dorian

Photo Credit: HEART 9/11 NYCDCC members volunteering in the Bahamas   New York, NY – The New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters (NYCDCC) is rebuilding homes and hearts with Heart 9/11, a disaster-relief organization that is now on-the ground mobilizing the rebuilding and recovery efforts in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian ravaged […]

De Blasio Supports ‘Transformative’ Safe Streets Plan, Just Not On His Watch

De Blasio Supports ‘Transformative’ Safe Streets Plan, Just Not On His Watch

Mayor de Blasio announcing his Green Wave plan this past summer (Mayor’s Flickr) By Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist Mayor Bill de Blasio says he now supports a City Council proposal to drastically reshape streets in favor of cyclists, bus riders, and pedestrians—provided, that is, the project’s ambitious benchmarks don’t kick in until after he leaves office. […]

UN Urges Caribbean to Show Solidarity Toward Venezuelans as Numbers Fleeing Country Reach 4.5 Million

UN Urges Caribbean to Show Solidarity Toward Venezuelans as Numbers Fleeing Country Reach 4.5 Million

CARACAS, Venezuela, Monday October 28, 2019 – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), the European Union (EU) and the UN migration agency (IOM) in a joint statement have called for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to show solidarity toward Venezuelans, with around 80 per cent of those who have left, sheltering in the […]

Afro Hair: How Black Finns Are Taking on Racism

By Naima Mohamud, BBC NEWS

Afro Hair: How Black Finns Are Taking on Racism

The women behind the Good Hair Day: Paloma Sandberg (l), Vanessa Daniels, Michaela Moua, Saida Mäki-Penttilä and Akunna Onwen . Photo by Pricilla Osei.   More than 50,000 people with African background live in Finland, according to Statistics Finland. Michaela Moua is one of them. Born to a Finnish mother and Ivorian father, she is […]

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice And Former Chair Of Board Of Directors Of Municipal Credit Union Charged With Obstruction Of Justice

Former New York City Police Department Officer and Supervisory Committee Member Also Charged With Embezzlement, Fraud, and Controlled Substance Offenses

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice And Former Chair Of Board Of Directors Of Municipal Credit Union Charged With Obstruction Of Justice

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice, Sylvia Ash (justice.gov) Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SYLVIA ASH, presiding judge of the Kings County Supreme Court, Commercial Division, and former chair of the board of directors of Municipal Credit Union (“MCU”), was charged in Manhattan federal court with […]

The Jean Botham Murder & Lackluster Justice

The Jean Botham Murder & Lackluster Justice

By Janet Howard Botham Shem Jean, was a 26-year-old Harding University alumnus and an accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Jean, born in Saint Lucia, a was smart, law-abiding, God-fearing young man. He wasn’t a criminal. He wasn’t loitering on the streets, drunk, smoking drugs, causing a public scene or armed. He was at his home, sitting […]

Reading for Fall: Rihanna

By Janet Howard

While we patiently or impatiently count down the days until Rihanna releases her long-awaited ninth studio album, our girl just tightened her stranglehold on world domination. Rihanna has announced a new book, called Rihanna, of course, and it’s 504 glorious pages long. The collection, which is billed as a “visual autobiography,” comes out this fall […]