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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture

The Conversation - February 4, 2025

Producers Fast Eddie and Joe Smooth mix at DJ International Studios in Chicago in 1990. Innovation was at the forefront of house and hip-hop....

ADW News

Incredible: N.Y. teacher arrested for badly beating student who owed him drug money

tshropshire7878 - September 23, 2016

In one of the most astounding and shocking stories of the year, a New York City teacher has been apprehended for allegedly robbing then...

National News

Family seeks firing of White NYC cop who killed Black teen

Britta Lee, Regional Content Editor - March 10, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — The family and friends of an unarmed Black teen shot to death in front of his grandmother and 6-year-old brother by…

National News

After years in solitary, a woman struggles to carry on

Britta Lee, Regional Content Editor - February 16, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) — Six weeks after her arrival at Rikers Island, an argument over who should clean a jailhouse shower sent Candie Hailey to…

National News

Experts: Black studies programs facing campus challenges

Britta Lee, Regional Content Editor - November 22, 2015

DETROIT (AP) — Protests by University of Missouri Black students that forced the school’s administration to address racism and other problems mirror efforts decades ago…

Sports

Boxer with 10 kids claims drugs made him do all-male porn threesome

tshropshire7878 - October 28, 2015

A retired professional boxer and father of 10 children is desperately trying to explain that exotic drugs caused him to black out and unknowingly...

National News

No NYPD uniform, but big role for plainclothes cops

Editor - May 11, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) _ They could be riding with unsuspecting New Yorkers on the subway. Or behind the wheel in a car in midtown Manhattan…

National News

Carl Heastie elected first Black speaker of New York Assembly

Editor - February 3, 2015

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Carl Heastie was elected speaker of the New York state Assembly on Tuesday, making him the first African-American to hold the…

Community

Kids learn stroke signs in class through imitation

Editor - March 23, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrea Esteban tried to smile with half her face, crossing her eyes in the process, and her third-grade classmates giggled. Matthew…

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