Thousands of protesters marched in silence through Manhattan on Sunday in an effort to end the New York Police Department's "stop-and-frisk" policy, which they claim disproportionately affects young black and Latino men.
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Representative Charles B. Rangel
Representing the 15th Congressional District of New York
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Several thousand New Yorkers marched silently down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue from lower Harlem to the mayor's Upper East Side townhouse on Sunday to protest the New York Police Department's contentious stop-and-frisk policy.
The success of the six-decade effort to get the prestigious award for Lt. Col. Weathers and the other surviving Tuskegee Airmen largely is attributable largely to the legislative efforts of New York Rep. Charles Rangel.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle honored Apple founder Steve Jobs Thursday morning after learning the news of his death Wednesday night, many emphasizing Jobs’s impact on their own lives.
States child welfare agencies are resistant to pursuing reunification with parents – 30,000 or more – who are incarcerated while their child is in foster care, according to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office this week.
"A U.S. Congressmen said Monday that the Palestinians should think twice about their bid to gain recognition at the United Nations,urging the Palestinian Authority to "reverse course" and get back to the negotiation table."
HARLEM — New York public leaders, community organizations and residents gathered Sunday to celebrate the 42nd annual African American Day Parade in Harlem. One focal point of the march was to attenuate the looming violence in neighboring and citywide communities.
If you want to talk jobs loss, talk about the cuts that will be existing especially to the local and state subdivisions where the city is cutting jobs, the state will be cutting jobs, the hospitals will be cutting jobs, schools, police, firemen.
"I made appeals to spiritual leaders—whether Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Gentile, Hindu, Mormon, Muslim—that for us to put on the chopping block the poorest of Americans, the sick, the young people, to deny education and houses, what we need here are jobs, and we’re down here debating constitutional amendments.”
"To this very day the Civil Rights Act remains one of the most important pieces of legislation, not just for people of color but for all Americans of different gender, religion, and socio-economic status."