#NYC’s prosecutors are imperiling us

#NYC’s prosecutors are imperiling us

“#NYC’s prosecutors are imperiling us” What to say about The Bronx and Manhattan district attorneys throwing out most of the looting and vandalism cases from the wake of the George Floyd protests last year?  Outrageous doesn’t quite cover it. Shameful, disgraceful, disgusting, as local businesses put it. All true. But above all else, these sorts…

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#In The Heights Under Fire For Lack Of Afro-Latinx Representation — See What Lin-Manuel Miranda Says!

#In The Heights Under Fire For Lack Of Afro-Latinx Representation — See What Lin-Manuel Miranda Says!

“#In The Heights Under Fire For Lack Of Afro-Latinx Representation — See What Lin-Manuel Miranda Says! ” The movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s 2008 Broadway musical In The Heights is drawing lots of attention this summer — but now it may be for all the wrong reasons. During an interview with The Root last week, director Jon M. Chu…

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#Video chat apps making tweaks to illuminate darker skin tones

#Video chat apps making tweaks to illuminate darker skin tones

“#Video chat apps making tweaks to illuminate darker skin tones” Video conferencing services have for years boasted that their technology is “intuitive” to use or “integrated” to function with other tools, but now vendors such as Google and Cisco can hardly go a blog post without trumpeting a different attribute: “inclusive.” The latest buzzword, and the…

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#Letters to the Editor — June 6, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — June 6, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — June 6, 2021” UFT’s Stringer pushThank you, United Federation of Teachers head Michael Mulgrew, for endorsing Comptroller Scott Stringer for mayor and advising teachers to not rank candidates Eric Adams and Andrew Yang on their ballots (“Desperate UFT targets Eric & Yang,” June 2). I think you’ve helped me and…

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#A message for black parents and other commentary

#A message for black parents and other commentary

“#A message for black parents and other commentary” Urban beat: A Crucial Message for Black Parents “Someday soon,” predicts Lee Hayes at the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, “a young African-American male will be gunned down in Minneapolis by someone who looks much like him” — yet there won’t be “one word from Black Lives Matter,” unless…

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#Letters to the Editor — May 31, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — May 31, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — May 31, 2021” The Issue: News that now-President Biden had dinner with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates in 2015. I read with some amusement the articles on Hunter and President Biden concerning their 2015 dinner (“Gaining dinner entrée to Joe,” May 27). I say “amusement” only because the majority of…

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