A melee broke out Tuesday afternoon at Playland Amusement Park when Muslim visitors became angry that the park was enforcing its ban on headgear by prohibiting the women from wearing their traditional head coverings on some rides. Police from at least nine agencies converged on the park begin... Read more...
Private-Public Partnership Will Invest More than $120 Million in Educational, Employment, and Mentoring Initiatives across the Five Boroughs Building on its long commitment to reverse systemic injustices in the United States, the Open Society Foundations today announced that it is joining a new i... Read more...
Legendary comic Carlin comes back to the Beacon theater to angrily rant about airport security, germs, cigars, angels, children and parents, men, names, religion, god, advertising, Bill Jeff and minorities. This is George Carlin’s 1999 HBO Special (from The Beacon Theater New York). It is Geor... Read more...
For more than a decade, anthropologists and historians pieced together the history of a short-lived African-American community that was snuffed out in the 1850s by the creation of Central Park. They combed vital records and tax documents, scanned parkland using radar and studied soil borings. But... Read more...
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the Center for American Progress, and the Open Society Foundations hosted a conversation with Wes Moore, New York Times bestselling author, and Michel Martin, host of NPR’s Tell Me More. The one-on-one interview explores the pursuit of just... Read more...
Ever since the Democrats established the legality of mandatory minimums and three-strike laws under the leadership of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, African Americans have literally had the book thrown at them and the key thrown away. Regardless of circumstances, as convicted felons they a... Read more...
Two years ago, a Stanford business school student named Tristan Walker sent Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvaduraian email out of the blue, asking for a job. Today, Tristan is Foursquare's director of business development. During his tenure, he's built partnerships between F... Read more...
Via: Where does the music industry live today, anyway? The simple response is 'everywhere,' because creation, innovation, and promotion can happen anywhere, anytime. But ultimately that answer is too simple, too digitally utopian. After all, great music demands great marketing, and careers requ... Read more...
When Shawn Dove was in sixth grade, the students at his New York City school were asked to decide which academic track they wanted to follow for the next two years. He decided to choose "major gym," just like the rest of his friends. But when he brought the form home to his single mother and... Read more...