Family members and supporters of Kyam Livingston (pictured) congregated at E. 18th Street and Church Avenue in Flatbush Thursday evening, marking four months after her death in a Brooklyn holding cell. The group spoke outside the Church Avenue train station before steel NYPD barricades. RELATED: Family, Friends Hold Rally For Kyam Livingston In Brooklyn [VIDEO] […]
Activist dance group Dancing For Action held another flash mob outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Friday evening, demanding an end to Stand Your Ground laws and reacting to Thursday’s stunning reversal on an August Stop & Frisk ruling. RELATED: Dancing Group Stages Flash Mob In Manhattan For Trayvon, Demands End To “Stand Your Ground” Law The […]
The Father of Jean Fritz Pierre (pictured below), the Brooklyn teenager who drowned in a lake this past June, recently received a phone call from his son’s school, saying his son is repeatedly absent, The New York Daily News reports. RELATED: NY Teen Who Drowned On School Trip Was Warned Against Going Into Lake Jonas […]
A Brooklyn teenager who drowned after jumping into a lake in an upstate New York park was warned not to go in it four times beforehand, according to The New York Daily News. RELATED: Arizona Teen Drowns After Saving Siblings Jean Fritz Pierre (pictured) was with fellow students from the Prospect Heights International High School, when […]
Anthony Yarbough (pictured), a Brooklyn man serving a 75-to-life sentence for allegedly killing his mother, sister, and her friend, may be exonerated by newly found DNA evidence, the Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Presidents Come Together For Affordable Care Act “Every day I ask God, I’m innocent. What am I doing here?” Yarbough told the […]
Two months after she died in a holding cell at Brooklyn’s Central Bookings, family and friends of Kyam Livingston (pictured below left) rallied in Brooklyn to bring justice to her case Saturday. SEE ALSO: Chicago Shooting Shows Gap In Stepped-Up Policing Son Alexander (pictured center), mother Anita Neil (pictured left of Alexander), and sister Ashanta (pictured right) lead a procession through […]
Two Brooklyn girls, who were sent to buy food from a chicken store by their mother’s ex-boyfriend, returned to find her dead, according to the Daily News. SEE ALSO: Robin Roberts Celebrates “Her First Birthday” Fifteen-year-old Khadija and 5-year-old Alyssa were sent to a local Crown Fried Chicken in their Brownsville neighborhood around 8:45 p.m. […]
Cherise Miller, Mother of 1-year-old Antiq Hennis (pictured), who was killed by a gunman’s stray bullet in Brooklyn Sunday, recalled her final moments with her son Tuesday, according to Daily News. RELATED: 1-Year-Old Baby Shot Dead In New Orleans While In Babysitter’s Arms [VIDEO] “I went in my mother’s room and he’s jumping on the […]
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: Long Grove Heritage Days But even before arriving, you could feel the Caribbean love from people on the Brooklyn-bound A train in South Richmond Hill, a neighborhood known for its […]
Grammy-nominated reggae artist Andrew “Dru” Barnes (pictured) was smashed in the face with a hammer in Brooklyn last week, according to the NY Daily News. SEE ALSO: Young Black Men: Your Life Matters! Barnes, a member of the alternative reggae band JOGYO, had reportedly just left his friend Gerrit Vooren’s Bedford-Stuyvesant home at 11 a.m. […]
Eleven-year-old Tayloni Mazyck (pictured), the Brooklyn girl paralyzed by a stray bullet to the neck on May 31st, is confident she will walk again, according to the Daily News. RELATED: Tayloni Mazyck: 11-Year-Old New York Girl Paralyzed After Being Shot By Stray Bullet “She’s talking and alert and recognizes every family member. She’s saying she […]
Tamu Francis (pictured), a third grade Brooklyn teacher at P.S. 191 (pictured below), allegedly egged on another child to pummel a “bully” as he stood before his fellow classmates. Now Francis is reportedly facing a $10,000 fine for instigating the school hallway circus, reports the Daily Mail. SEE ALSO: Baltimore Cop Arrested For Allegedly Pimping Teen Wife […]
