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Archive | 2007
A Waste of Tax-Payers Money, Or Not?
If you are going to check out a book or do some research at the Brooklyn Public Library you’ll notice that the building is undergoing some major changes. There has been an expansion at the Brooklyn Public Library located on Grand Army Plaza.
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CBS 2 News Anchor Russ Mitchell Visits Aspiring Journalists
On November 3rd, CBS news anchor and correspondent Russ Mitchell was invited to speak to the young teenagers of the New York Association of Black Journalists. Anchor of both the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News and The Early Show, Russ Mitchell grew up in St. Louis, Missouri to a loving and supportive family. [...]
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Is Racism Still Alive and Well in America?
New York City, where about 40% of the population is of color, is seeing a rise in hate crimes. A noose was found in a post office near Ground Zero. The police said the post office noose was discovered Thursday by postal employees, dangling from a lamp post near the lower Manhattan post office. Building [...]
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Minorities with Breast Cancer
Breast cancer has proven to be a leading killer of blacks and other minorities in most urban environments.
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Fun Halloween Treats
This year Halloween is can be more than going trick or treating with your friends and more than going to see the Halloween parade in Manhattan. Many fun filled activities are available for every age this year. For children, the Stuyvesant Heights Parents Association is hosting their 3rd annual Halloween tour. Children will be able to go trick or treating together [...]
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Diane Cardwell Speaks with Aspiring Youth
Graduate of the renowned Harvard University, Diane Cardwell graced her presence with the young, aspiring journalists of NYAJB on Saturday, October 20 th. Currently the City Hall Borough Chief of the prestigious New York Times, she discussed her trials and tribulations of her journalism career. Growing up in a struggling middle class family residing on [...]
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More Than Just Greenery: Artisans Sell Work at Fort Greene Park
In Fort Greene Park, artisans gather together to display and sell their contemporary and innovative peices of work. Natasha Harsh, a genuine artisan in her own right, invites various artisans and their work to her show, which runs from spring to mid-autumn. In the winter, these artisans, or skilled craftspeople, do other shows, and freelance [...]
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Grady’s Path to the Championship Is Not Gravy
Grady High School vs. Brooklyn Tech With little time left to recoop from last weeks loss the Engineers tried to fix a troubled defense that gave up 1082 yards in their 5 losses, and had trouble generating much offense. After last weeks debacle against the Utes the Engineers made a valiant effort to come back [...]
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The Glory Days of Brooklyn Tech Football
Back when Grease was the must see musical, and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the start of new generation of horror movies, the Brooklyn Tech Football Engineers were the kings of Brooklyn. It was the late 60′s through the early 70′s. Head Coach Cuzzocrea of ’69 and ’70 teams explained those times as the glory [...]
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Hattitude
Christopher Samuel contributed to this report. A Brooklyn hattery insists that its customers make their hats, instead of letting their hats make them. “Hats are no longer just an accessory, but the main article of clothing,” said Joe, the single-monikered owner of Malchijah Hats on DeKalb. Locating their boutique in the artsy melting pot of Fort Greene, partners Joe and [...]
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Gentrification in Brooklyn
What is gentrification? Gentrification is the upgrading of an urban and often economically challenged neighborhood. It usually results in the displacement of lower income families because they are not able to compete with the more affluent class that is trying to replace them. We explored our local Downtown Brooklyn shopping area [Fulton Street], to find [...]
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Atlantic Yards
A walk-a-thon will be held this Sunday in Prospect Heights by the group Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn to protest developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. Ratner is trying to build an arena for the Nets basketball team, as well as high-rise apartment buildings and office space near Prospect Heights.
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Aliens in America
Immigrants are the key to the infrastructure of the United States. They have helped our country develop in areas such as labor and diversity. Would it be fair to just decide to rid our nation of them? Isn’t America supposed to be the land of the immigrants?
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Barry Bonds, Baseball, and the Steroid Era in Sports
This past year in baseball and sports in general many truths have been revealed to fans, reporters, and the rest of the American public. Throughout history, athletes have tried to get an edge on the competition. Steroids, and amphetamines have been the most recent and effective way of doing just that.
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New Utretcht Sweeps by Brooklyn Tech 36-20
A midseason stop before heading down playoff lane proved an easy stroll for New Utrecht High School, who rolled over Brooklyn Tech 36-20, with senior halfback Alex Warden in the driver’s seat last Saturday.
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My life in the school system
My name is Talon S. Taylor. I am 13 years old and I was born on November 30, 1993. As of February 2006, I became a home-schooled student. My main career goal is to become a successful Graphic Artist. I also have interests in Astrophysics – [which is the study of objects and matter outside [...]
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Who wants to know why people cheat!
Who wants to know why people cheat? Do you ever wonder why your significant other, no matter how much love is involved, will still cheat on you? You can give someone everything in the world and yet still this person can find a way to not be faithful. This may not go for everyone as [...]
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A Decent Burial, 200 Years Later
For a few hours last week, Lower Manhattan traded the noisy clamor of taxis and the chatter of attorneys for drumming, singing and dancing as a throng of people properly put their ancestors to rest after hundreds of years. This was not a mass funeral, but rather the dedication of the African Burial Ground Memorial; [...]
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