Week In Review

New York –The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a New York–‐ based youth development organization that has been centrally involved in the efforts to reform the NYPD’s “Stop & Frisk” police policies, has launched a provocative new campaign today to raise awareness of “The Talk.”   Created by Saatchi & Saatchi, the centerpiece of the campaign is an…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Nakia Wilson pauses after lighting a candle Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, at a makeshift memorial for the two police officers who were shot there Saturday, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Wilson is a colleague of the sister of Officer Raphael Ramos, one of the officers who died….

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By Kiarra Solomon @By_Kiarra Amidst all of the national attention surrounding violence against black males and our legal system’s response to it, Black America has shifted its focus, at least momentarily, to demanding justice for those who have lost their lives and that “the system” unlearn the techniques and preconceived notions about Black males that…

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ABOVE PHOTO: State Rep. Ronald Waters and Vanessa Lowery Brown. Last week, District Attorney Seth Williams charged State Representatives Ronald Waters and Vanessa Lowery Brown with Criminal Conspiracy, Bribery in Official and Political Matters, Conflict of Interest, and Failure to Make Required Disclosures in Statement of Financial Interests for accepting money in exchange for promised…

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By Julie Pace and Matthew Lee Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba on Wednesday and declared an end to America’s “outdated approach” to the communist island in a historic shift aimed at ending a half-century of Cold War enmity. “These 50 years have shown that isolation…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Letitia James  (Photo by Matthew Cohen/Wikipedia) By Jennifer Peltz Associated Press NEW YORK — After a police officer wasn’t indicted in a fatal chokehold caught on video, some officials are reviving calls to entrust such cases to special prosecutors, rather than local district attorneys. The city’s elected public advocate and some state lawmakers…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Joyce Craig Lewis  (Photo: Phila. Fire Departmentt) By Michael R. Sisak ASSOCIATED PRESS A firefighter hailed for her work ethic and the pride she took in being assigned to the city’s busiest engine companies died Tuesday after she became trapped in the basement of a burning row home where an elderly woman was…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Bill Cosby  (Randy Miramontez / Shutterstock.com) By Maryclaire Dale Associated Press  Bill Cosby stepped down as a trustee of his beloved Temple University following renewed accusations that he had drugged and sexually assaulted a string of women over many years. The 77-year-old entertainer has been a high-profile booster for his alma mater in…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Eric Garner  (AP Photo) By Tom Hays and Colleen Long Associated Press NEW YORK — Civil rights leaders Thursday decried the grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold death of a black man and announced plans for a march and a summit on racial justice in Washington later…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  A protester squirts lighter fluid on a police car as the car windows are shattered near the Ferguson Police Department after the announcement of the grand jury decision not to indict police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo….

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