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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — An intruder didn’t count on an 82-year-old woman living alone being an award-winning bodybuilder with nerves of steel. Willie Murphy was getting ready for bed Thursday at her home in Rochester, New York, when a man pounded on the door and said he needed an ambulance, Murphy told WHAM. SIGN UP […]

A Binghamton school has been upended by protests after allegations that four Black 12-year-olds were strip-searched at local middle school. The students were searched for drugs, according to reports, by a school nurse and the assistant principal, after appearing “hyper and giddy” during lunch. A heated community meeting questioned why the school, East Middle School […]

A video shows school staff using excessive force on a Black high school student.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who held himself out as a champion of women and a liberal foil to President Donald Trump, resigned from office after four women accused him of physical violence during intimate encounters. It was a swift and stunning fall for a Democrat who had pledged to […]

Rev. Al Sharpton reminds us again to not get distracted by what’s going on in the world but to remember to focus our attention on the problems we have right here at home. With the National Action Network Convention, Sharp tells us how to get involved. “We need an action plan. So we’re taking three […]

Kalief Browder’s story is still one of the darkest tales in the history of the American prison system. After committing suicide at just 22 years old, the young man who served three years at Rikers Island (although he was never convicted), received a beautiful posthumous birthday gift this year. On Wednesday, officials announced that a Bronx […]

The WestView News, a New York based community newspaper, is under fire for running an op-ed piece that refers to President Obama with the n-word…

As high as the racial climate is in America today, you have to wonder about the mental state of someone that would come right out and say something so racially insensitive that it appears to be begging for backlash. Especially someone running for a seat in the state Senate. But then again, you have to […]