It’s the end of the school year so cue the pranks! Two Brooklyn fourth graders were arrested for allegedly slipping rat poison in their teacher’s water. Police are reporting that she noticed a bout of nausea after she drank the water. CBS New York reports: The teacher went to police after two other students told […]

The New York City Teachers’ Strike of 1968, also referred to as the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, caused a major split between Blacks and Jews in the city that still has ramifications today. The strike came as a result of the decentralization of schools in New York City, an experimental plan endorsed by then-mayor John Lindsay […]

What do you do when your deceased husband gets visitors from the NYPD upwards of 12 times a year? That’s the story of Karen Jordan has to relieve over and over because the police won’t stop barging in, demanding to see her husband. James died from complications with diabetes in 2006. “I tell them over and […]

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All he wanted was a new pair of kicks. Instead, a 15-year-old Brooklyn boy got a bullet in his foot. The Daily News reports: The victim, identified by friends as Isaiah Martinez, was shot early Saturday as he tried to buy a pair of Kanye West-designed sneakers from a Brooklyn Foot Locker, cops and witnesses […]

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A teenager enjoying his first day of spring recess got shot in the back of the head while fleeing a gunman who opened fire along a busy Brooklyn street on Monday, cops said. The NY Post reports: Gama Droiville, 13, was walking with his aunt on Flatbush Avenue near Beverly Road around noon when the […]

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Actor Anthony Mackie questioned the sincerity of renowned filmmaker Spike Lee‘s concern over gentrification in Brooklyn, pointing out that the Red Hook director no longer…

When Spike Lee has strong feelings on anything Brooklyn-related, the public is bound to hear about them. This is, after all, the man behind some…

The Black Beat

Spike Lee (pictured) has spoken at length in times past about how his beloved borough of Brooklyn has changed over the years due to gentrification. Last night,…

Black history can’t be made unless there are black men who educated and alive to make it. As Black males fall further and further behind educationally, they also fall further and further behind socially and financially. A new documentary 13 years in the making, American Promise, premieres on PBS on Monday, February 3 at 10 […]

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A Brooklyn woman (pictured center) was struck in the head by a stranger in an unprovoked attack in East New York Tuesday afternoon, the New…

It looks like “Christopher Wallace Way” is a no-go. According to reports, Brooklyn community board members objected to naming the intersection of St. James Place…

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The spirit of Jah was in the air Monday, as the annual West Indian Day Parade made its way through Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway. SEE ALSO:…