NEW YORK — Several incidents of gun violence marred the annual New York West Indian Labor Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. In all, more than 7 people were shot in and around the parade, according to the New York Post. One man was shot during the jurvee, pre-carnival celebration at a McDonalds near […]
NEW YORK-A huge rat was found in rapper Jay-Z’s previous home of Marcy Projects in Brooklyn. There has been a picture circulating of Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera, with a huge rat on a pitchfork, which he claims he killed the rat with. The cat sized rat was sited around the projects for years according […]
Twenty years ago today, rioting in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn shed light on state of black-Jewish relations in a city where both communities vie for influential shares of everything from political influence to real estate. A once power alliance that helped institute dramatic change during the Civil Right Era took an abrupt turn […]
NEW YORK — William Boyland Jr., a Democratic New York state assemblyman from Brooklyn, was shot at while driving his car through Brooklyn with his seven year old son, resulting in a bullet in his back window. Black News 2 reports: Boyland and his son were left unhurt, but there is still a question of […]
NEW YORK — The Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, a historically Black neighborhood famously depicted in Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing,” is becoming more and more mixed due to a high influx of whites moving in. The white migration has made rent prices higher and forced many African Americans to move from […]
A Brooklyn teen was struck and killed by a SUV on Saturday evening after helping six other children escape the out-of-control vehicle. Kira Goddard, 13, was outside her Brownsville residence when she noticed a Range Rover approaching erratically. Goddard shepherded the other children into the building but was struck and killed before she could save herself. […]
NEW YORK — Two female African American police officers have made history by becoming the first top cops to command a city precinct. Deputy Inspector Juanita Holmes and Capt. Vanessa Kight are now the top cops at Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvestant. Women comprise 17.2% of uniformed officers in the NYPD. African-Americans make up 16.5% […]
According to data from last year’s Census, the Black population in a number of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Clinton Hill has decreased by one-third over the last decade. NY1 reports: The findings also reflect a trend in black migration to the suburbs. New York City’s black population declined by 2 percent. It is […]
March 9th is date that will forever live in the minds of Hip-Hop Heads across the world. Its predominantly known as the date Late and VERY GREAT Notorious B.I.G was gunned down in California. However, on March 9th 2011 Locals Only in Indianapolis, Indiana took time to recognize another Hip-Hop Great…Rapper AZ as he Celebrates […]
When if Foxy going to learn?? The Brooklyn rapper was caught throwing down in a luxury building in NYC. According to tmz.com, Foxy was reportedly involved in a brawl with several people including her manager.
I’m hearing that Foxy Brown may have hit rock bottom! Sources are saying that Foxy was spotted around 1:00AM early Monday morning outside a Nathan’s in Brooklyn, New York getting high and drinking in the street!!! Here’s what they’re saying: Foxy was spotted with two men getting high and drinking publicly. Each of her companions […]
Brooklyn’s most famous son, Jay-Z, was on hand at the ceremonial ground breaking of the Barclays Center at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn yesterday, the new home and arena of the NJ Nets, of which he is minority owner. The team will soon be renamed the “Brooklyn Nets.”
