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Immigration Chief Preps Candidates for New Test

Posted in GENERAL, THE SCOOP on Thursday, March20, 2008 | Comments Off

Immigration Chief Preps Candidates for New Test
By SARAH GARLANDStaff Reporter of the SunMarch 20, 2008
A wave of new immigrants has prompted the federal immigration agency to initiate a new government-led assimilation project. A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research organization, projected that one in five residents will be foreign-born by 2050. [...]

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NYC Open Casting Call – Monday, March 3rd in Harlem

Posted in THE SCOOP on Friday, February29, 2008 | Comments Off

NYC Open Casting Call – Monday, March 3rd in Harlem:
INVISIBLE LIFE The Musical Based on the NY Times Best selling novelby E. Lynn Harris
AUDITION DATE: Monday, March 3rdTIME: 11:30am – 4:00pm
SIGN UP BEGINS: 11 am
LOCATION Nubian Heritage, 2037 5th Avenue, Harlem, NYC (between 125and 126th Street)
INVISIBLE LIFE: is an explosive story inspired by E. LynnHarris’novel [...]

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10 Handy Numbers to Save in Your Mobile Phone

Posted in ANNOUNCEMENTS, THE LOUNGE, THE SCOOP on Wednesday, February27, 2008 | Comments Off

10 Handy Numbers to Save in Your Mobile Phone
Handy Numbers for your Mobile Phone“Always be prepared!” That’s the Boy Scout motto. Here are 10 phone numbers we could care less about until the moment we need them, at which point they save us time, money and general peace of mind. Do yourself a favor and [...]

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Million Dollar Blocks

Posted in GENERAL, HARLEM, THE BRONX, THE SCOOP on Saturday, February23, 2008 | Comments Off

Projects Million Dollar Blocks INFORMATION
Status: ActiveContact: Laura KurganPublications: PSA,Million Dollar BlocksPDF, Architecture and JusticePDF, Scenario Planning WorkshopLinks: Justice Mapping Center, JFA InstituteDESCRIPTION
The United States currently has more than 2 million people locked up in jails and prisons. A disproportionate number of them come from a very few neighborhoods in the country’s biggest cities. In many [...]

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Boxing legend’s sister found frozen to death

Posted in SPORTS, THE SCOOP on Thursday, February21, 2008 | Comments Off

Boxing legend’s sister found frozen to death
SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (AP) — The 92-year-old sister of boxing great Joe Louis was found frozen to death outside her apartment at an assisted-living center, authorities said.art.louis.memorial.gi.jpg
The body of Vunies High, who had Alzheimer’s disease, was found Monday outside The Heatherwood retirement complex in Southfield, a Detroit suburb, said Capt. [...]

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O Hell Nawl !

Posted in ENTERTAINMENT, THE SCOOP on Thursday, January17, 2008 | Comments Off

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AlterNet: How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative

Posted in POLITRICKS, THE SCOOP on Thursday, January17, 2008 | Comments Off

How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican OperativeBy Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNetPosted on January 17, 2008, Printed on January 17, 2008http://www.alternet.org/story/74030/
Allen Raymond worked inside Republican election circles for years, until he was convicted of illegally jamming telephone lines to New Hampshire Democratic Party offices on Election Day in 2002. After serving five months in [...]

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Another Slip-Up on the Air, Another Apology – New York Times

Posted in COMMUNITY, STOOP, THE SCOOP, URBAN NEWS on Thursday, January17, 2008 | Comments Off

TV SportsAnother Slip-Up on the Air, Another ApologyBy RICHARD SANDOMIRPublished: January 17, 2008
It was late in Connecticut’s 81-65 win over St. John’s on Jan. 8 when the ESPN analyst Bucky Waters grew euphoric over the nine steals by Jerome Dyson, the Huskies’ sophomore guard.Skip to next paragraphWalt Unks/The Herald Sun, via Associated Press
Bucky Waters
“I bet [...]

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Do Poor and Wealthy Black Americans Live in Two Different Worlds? – NAM

Posted in CULTURE, STOOP, THE SCOOP on Tuesday, January15, 2008 | Comments Off

Do Poor and Wealthy Black Americans Live in Two Different Worlds?
Black Press International, News Analysis, William Reed, Posted: Jan 18, 2008
Editor’s note: For those who have been watching, the Pew study doesn’t really yield surprises. Rather, it refines and clarifies the edges of social processes — race and class identification — that are complex, evolving [...]

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Old Ammunition Could Pose Danger In Harbor, Assemblyman Warns

Posted in POLITRICKS, THE SCOOP on Tuesday, January15, 2008 | Comments Off

Old Ammunition Could Pose Danger In Harbor, Assemblyman Warns
By Associated PressJanuary 15, 2008
Before the city’s sanitation department starts building a new garbage transfer station on the edge of New York Harbor, it may have to clean up something more potentially explosive than rancid food that stayed too long on the shelf, a state lawmaker says.
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