Video by: Danielle Pierre Photos by: Keziah Green Just four days before Veterans Day, the USS New York, a ship made in part out of steel from the World Trade Center wreckage, was commissioned at Pier 88 on the Westside of Manhattan. The ceremony included speeches by Governor David Paterson and Secretary of [...]
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Workshop Explains Allure of Gangs
A workshop about gang violence was held in the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan for concerned parents and teens. Gang violence has always been a huge problem. The host, Carlos Ortiz, an officer of the NYPD Division of School Safety Special Projects Unit, says that “there are over 500,000 members worldwide” pertaining only to a new [...]
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Domestic Violence Prevention Summit
Domestic violence is continuously on the media and on the rise. Recently on the news, a Medgar Evers College student has been severely shot by her enraged husband in broad daylight. A summit at Long Island University organized a community awareness of domestic violence and ways to prevent it. At the summit it was [...]
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