A Civil Rights Movement Grows in Brooklyn
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Two meetings last week, one in a modest community center across the street from a waterfront Brooklyn housing project, the other in a well-lit assembly room...
Continuing a Community Activist’s Lifelong Work in Harlem
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Steve Ice Waters was a kid when his family moved to Harlem from Los Angeles in 1980. Harlem was beginning to see the early signs of what would become a crack epidemic.
Teens Remain Squarely in Crosshairs of NYC Law Enforcement, Panelists Say
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Paula Clarke thought the country was under attack. Groggily wiping the sleep from her eyes, she felt the house shake as a SWAT team with automatic rifles tore through the front door and charged into her Bronx home.
Family, Friends in Harlem React to Young Man’s Sentencing for Gang-related Murder, Crimes
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On Friday, Manhattan Justice Edward McLaughlin sentenced Taylonn Murphy Jr. to 50 years to life for the 2011 murder of Walter Sumter. Murphy was also convicted of conspiracy, robbery and weapons charges.
Harlem Raid Families from Both Sides Make a Plan
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It was early August, exactly two months after the largest raid in New York City history at the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects, when 20 people, mostly older folks, crammed into the Community Board 9 office in a tiny storefront in Harlem.
Basketball Tournament Honors Slain Harlem Teen Tayshana ‘Chicken’ Murphy
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The Tayshana Chicken Murphy Foundation hosted the 2014 Ball N Peace Citywide Showcase at Lindsay Park on Sunday, attracting more than 200 inner-city children to compete on the same courts where Murphy once learned the game of basketball. Taylonn Murphy, Tayshana's father, founded the annual tournament in 2012 to honor his slain daughter and “all children who have lost their lives due to gun violence.”
"This is where it all started for Tayshana. It's only right we start the Ball N Peace showcase here, too."