For years, Sade Singh, a Brooklyn-born, self-proclaimed “activist” teenager who lives in Hollis, Queens, watched from afar as individuals around her who identified as gay, lesbian and transgender were harassed — by overt displays of bigotry in her community and occasional incidents of intolerance at her school, Queens Collegiate High School in Jamaica.
Next week the city will celebrate the 43rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which for many marked the beginning of the gay rights movement and the birth of one of the 20th century’s most formative social struggles. But what many may not know is this week marks the 43rd anniversary of a smaller gay rights [...]
From the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) release: “According to DOE data, city students served 73,441 suspensions during the 2010-2011 school year – a more than 130 percent increase in suspensions from the 2002-2003 school year, the first year under mayoral control of schools, when there were 31,879 suspensions. The data shows black students [...]
Thousands marched in silence down Fifth Avenue on Father’s Day to protest the New York Police Department’s controversial “Stop & Frisk” program—a policing tactic critics say unfairly singles out young black and Latino men. As DNAinfo reported, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently defended “Stop & Frisk” to parishioners in Brownsville, Brooklyn on June 10. “There are some who [...]
“You are now poised to make this the century when women shape not only their own destiny, but the destiny of the whole nation,” he said. “It’s up to you to stand up and be heard, to write, to lobby, to march, to organize, to vote.” Read more from The Caucus. (Photograph above by Doug [...]
