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Authorities say NYPD officers wounded a suspect outside a Harlem apartment after he fatally shot a 13-year-old girl and critically injured her mother. Police say they responded to the Polo Grounds Houses at 2971 Eighth Ave. around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday after receiving a call of a female shot. They found the victims inside an apartment. The girl had been shot in the head. Her 44-year-old mother was shot multiple times. The woman told police that the suspect was her 28-year-old son.

Two 12-year-old boys were in police custody after allegedly dropping a shopping cart four stories onto a New York City mother who was out buying Halloween candy for underprivileged children. Marion Salmon Hedges, a wealthy Manhattan real-estate agent, was struck in the head by the falling cart on Sunday while walking outside a Target store with her 14-year-old son in East Harlem, the New York Post reports. Gaurav Patel, a doctor who witnessed the incident, performed CPR on Hedges, who was later transported to Harlem Hospital where she remains in a medically-induced coma. "We heard a little boy just screaming,"...

Tea Parties United is a growing federation of New York and New Jersey Tea Party groups that is making an impact in southeastern New York and northern New Jersey. TPU held a rally at the Platzi Brauhaus in Pomona, NY on Saturday afternoon, October 15, 1011. Hundreds of people attended the four hour event. Several notable speakers inspired the crowd, but nobody electified the patriots like Barbara from Harlem. If you don't know of Barbara, she is a frequent caller to the Mark Levin national talk radio show.

Police arrested one man and were searching for two others Tuesday in connection with the murder of Manhattan high school basketball standout Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy.

Hate Preached In Harlem: Nation of Islam Leader Farrakhan Says Fort Hood Shooter Is Not a Terrorist Just a Good Muslim Who Was Driven Crazy By The Terrorist American Soldiers Who Rape Muslim Men, Woman & Families http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hate-preached-in-harlem-nation-of-islam-leader-farrakhan-says-fort-hood-shooter-is-not-a-terrorist-just-a-good-muslim-who-was-driven-crazy-by-the-terrorist-american-soldiers-who-rape-muslim-men-woma/

According to Maxine Waters the Tea party “can go straight to hell”. But “VIVA FIDEL!” she chanted during the rapturous reception that greeted the Stalinist dictator’s visit to Harlem’s Riverside Church on Sept. 9, 2000. The overflow crowd packed the Church to suffocation and spilled from the doors onto the streets and sidewalks. "I came to Harlem because I knew it was here that I would find my best friends!" beamed the jailer of the longest suffering black political prisoners in modern history, inside the Harlem church that might still be radioactive except for Khrushchev foiling his fondest wish in...

You could check out the barren shelves, but not the books. A Harlem library branch has rows upon rows of empty bookcases. The shelves in each and every aisle in the adult section of the 115th Street Library had two or more rows without a single tome. Though the NYPL online catalogue indicated that four copies of "The Catcher in the Rye" were available, they weren't there -- and they weren't checked out. The librarian said that the selection there has always been sparse and then whispered, "And there are no metal detectors. Sometimes people just walk out with stuff."

New York, NY - The streets of Harlem, New York were alive with sounds of protest as a coalition of left wing groups gathered there to demonstrate against US foreign policy…Specifically to express outrage about the US led bombing campaign in Libya and economic sanctions against Zimbabwe. The event called the Millions in Harlem march was organized by the Nation of Islam. It’s controversial leader Louis Farrakhan has publicly supported Libya’s Muhammar Gaddafi and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabi despite the questionable human right records of both leaders. National Black United Front leader Kofi Tahara said the U.S. and its allies should...

A Muslim woman was beaten by two female thugs who ripped off her headdress during a Harlem attack that cops are investigating as a possible hate crime, The Post has learned. Aissatou Diallo, 56, said she was pummeled after asking one of the women to stop taking her picture as she walked to her husband's store Wednesday. "I was minding my business. I was fully covered. So, why did they attack me -- just because I am a Muslim?" Diallo told The Post. Diallo said she politely asked Francesca Johnson, 28, to quit snapping cellphone shots as she walked down...

Thousands of American blacks held a rally in Harlem last week to protest . . . the NAACP.The New York state chapter of the civil rights organization and the United Federation of Teachers, the local teachers union, have filed a lawsuit to stop the city from closing 22 of Gotham's worst schools. The lawsuit also aims to block the city from giving charter schools space to operate in buildings occupied by traditional public schools. Protesters at the rally, which included parents and charter school operators like Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children's Zone, urged the NAACP to withdraw from the...

It’s a $100 million holistic Harlem complex meant to combine the latest research on how to provide the best education to kids in poor communities, which means going beyond reading, writing and arithmetic. The state-of-the-art school — with 60% of construction costs shouldered by city taxpayers — will include a community center, recreation rooms and even a health clinic. The Promise Academy Charter School, on the grounds of the St. Nicholas Houses, could change the lives not just of the 1,300 kids enrolled in K-12, but of a neighborhood where 42% of families live below the poverty line. As envisioned...

The New Black Panther Party, the racist and radical black power group, has a big day ahead of it this coming Saturday. According to its website, it’s planning a massive 60-city “showdown.” And the day of rage will include a protest of “non-black” businesses. The group says it’s establishing a home base at an office building in Harlem, an area it’s modeling after revolutionary ground zero in Egypt. The site goes on to explain why its rallying: As in other revolutions, protests and uprisings going on around the earth, a showdown is looming for Saturday April 23rd as marchers with...

At Harlem Dinner, A Few Disaffected Donors Come Back to ObamaBy Reid Pillifant March 30, 2011 | 7:28 p.m President Obama is making progress. According to two sources who attended the "purposefully small" D.N.C. dinner at the Red Rooster in Harlem last night, a few of those much-discussed, dissident donors were among the 50 attendees who paid $30,800 to enjoy short ribs and cornbread, and chat amiably with the president. "There were people there who in the past have expressed frustrations, and one person who said, 'You know, I'm not going to support him for re-election,'" said one attendee. "Well,...

HARLEM residents aren't crying over former President Bill Clinton's offices moving out of their neighborhood. The William J. Clinton Foundation, which moved onto W. 125th St. nearly 10 years ago, plans to move most of its offices to Water St. in the financial district.

President Obama is headed to Harlem at the end of the month for a $30,800-per-head political cash bash. Obama's March 29 fundraiser at the Red Rooster Restaurant on Lenox Avenue will raise ducats for the Democratic National Committee. The swank soiree in Harlem, an important base of African-American support, is advertised as an intimate six-table affair, Politico.com first reported. The President will also attend an invitation-only, "Thank You Reception" at the Studio Museum on 125th Street, minus the DNC fundraising. Darren Rigger, one Harlem fundraiser, raised his eyebrows at the price tag. "It doesn't seem like it's going to be...

Harlem rapper Jim Jones is being sued by a pair of Houston hotties over their R-rated romp in his new "Summer Time" video. Samantha Stotts and Sharie Johnson have some topless fun in the sun during the raunchy clip, which shows the rapper sipping Champagne and counting $100 bills surrounded by scantily clad beauties.

Michael Steele says he goes to Harlem because "that’s where the votes are." Struggling RNC chairman Michael Steele was a late guest on Greta van Susteren’s On the Record last night. Steele has been in the news recently because not only did he announce his intention to run for reelection as RNC chairman, but also because many Republicans and conservatives don’t want him to return, primarily because of his sorry performance. Steele confirmed many doubts people have about him when he blurted out that he liked going to Harlem as RNC chair because "that’s where the votes are." The weird...

Harlem's most famous tenant has renewed his lease at a savings to the U.S. taxpayer. Former President Bill Clinton, who caught some by surprise when he chose the 14-story building at 55 W. 125th St. for his offices after leaving the White House, has signed up for another 10 years. The lease for the 8,715 square feet on the building's top floor was negotiated by the U.S. General Services Administration.

Rangel won another term by a wide margin Tuesday despite lingering concerns over ethics allegationsBy Sarah Darville and Leah Greenbaum Published November 3, 2010 Staffers purchased a dozen bottles of champagne weeks ago to celebrate Representative Charles Rangel’s victory Tuesday night. But the short celebration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Democratic Club on 128th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard did not pass without mention of the 40-year incumbent’s upcoming public trial for ethics charges. Rangel won another term by a wide margin Tuesday despite lingering concerns over ethics allegations related to failing to pay income taxes and not...

Michael Faulkner is challenging Rangel on the Republican line. A former NY Jet, he’s pastor of Harlem's New Horizons Church. Faulkner advocates: * Cutting taxes and regs — especially for small business — to spark job creation. * Encouraging alternatives to public-education, including charters and full school choice. * Redoing O/Care to improve health care rather than reworking insurance. Harlem residents tired and embarrassed by Rangel’s conduct should vote for Faulkner Nov. 2.

How a new report on HIV infection in the Big Apple scared a health reporter into getting tested and having a frank discussion with her "boo." By Tomika Anderson My longtime lover and I were driving through Harlem when we passed a billboard that made me want to slam on the brakes and pull the car over. On it were two women -- one black and one Latina -- their pretty, youthful faces in lights. But under their pictures was a statistic that sucker-punched me: 93.4 percent. As in, 93.4 of all new HIV cases among women in NYC occur...

I congratulate Congressman Rangel on his victory in the Democratic primary and look forward to facing him in the November election for New York’s 15th Congressional District seat. Although he’s done good work in Washington over the past 40 years, we must realize that the Charlie Rangel I face today is not the Charlie Rangel we voted for 40, 30, or even 20 years ago, proven by the fact that nearly half his former supporters voted against him in the primary. Rangel lost not only the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee, but also the respect of his colleagues....

Harlem pol braces for public trial, crowded primary raceOne week from today, one of the most talked-about New York political races this year will play out at the voting booths—but not before Rangel is scrutinized at a public hearing. By Kim Kirschenbaum Published September 7, 2010 True to the wild and whimsical world of Rep. Charles Rangel, the night of his birthday bash this summer started out with an unexpected gesture: a highly public display of the middle finger. One-time New York Mayor David Dinkins, known for flying under the radar, made headlines the moment his car rolled up to...

Many Harlem voters say their two top contenders for Congress - incumbent Charles Rangel and Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV - leave them with a choice between bad and worse. "Everybody wishes there were better options," said Pax Williams, a 33-year-old party promoter who plans to vote for Rangel because "you don't want to get anyone worse." Rangel faces a House trial on 13 ethics charges, including tax evasion, and, as the Daily News reported Thursday, Powell took thousands in campaign cash - which he is returning - from an ex-con strip-club king. "You don't know what else is...

It was a gentle but unmistakable nudge President Obama gave Representative Charles B. Rangel recently, suggesting in an interview three weeks ago that Mr. Rangel, 80, should retire to “end his career with dignity.” At a tense and sometimes fiery candidates’ forum Monday night, Mr. Rangel shot back that it was not his dignity the president should be worried about. “Frankly, he has not been around long enough to determine what my dignity is,” Mr. Rangel said of the 49-year-old Mr. Obama. “For the next two years, I will be more likely to protect his dignity.” The unexpected eruption seemed...

For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of “the Savory Collection.” Recorded from radio broadcasts in the late 1930s by an audio engineer named William Savory... only a handful of people had ever heard even the smallest fraction of that music, adding to its mystique. After 70 years that wait has now ended. This year the National Jazz Museum in Harlem acquired the entire set of nearly 1,000 discs, made at the height of the swing era, and has begun digitizing recordings of inspired performances by Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bunny Berigan,...

There goes the neighbourhood: change sweeps black America's cultural homeFor much of the last century Harlem was the heart of the black community, but now some locals fear that whites and Hispanics are invading their turf Paul Harris in New York The Observer, Sunday 28 March 2010 Franco the Great, responsible for a lot of the frescoes on storefront gates along Harlem's 125th Street, outside its greatest landmark, the Apollo. Photograph: Mike McGregor There was a time when the sight of Sandra Schulze's blond hair in the middle of Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park would have been a shock. But last...

What better message to send to Washington than to defeat an old bull like Charlie Rangel? Rangel is one of the principal symbols of the tolerance Washington has for corrupt insider politics. He is Chairman-in-school-detention of the House Ways and Means Committee pending efforts of Democrats to avoid the most devastating mid-term election defeat in history. Because he usually doesn't have a serious challenger, Rangel is able to funnel in the neighborhood of a half million dollars every election cycle to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Such political largesse protects corruption. Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats dole out...

Gov. David Paterson has been given a reprieve of sorts and it came from a normally friendly, familiar faction of the state's body politic. A group of New York's senior African-American political leaders had gathered Thursday night at the storied Sylvia's soul food restaurant in Harlem to discuss the fate of the governor, the scion of one of their members. They concluded that, despite the calls for his resignation, people should wait for the investigations surrounding the governor to play out before any rush to judgment. "We should not have a mentality that would rob him of the rights he...

Rangle is holding a news conference in 15 minutes. Will he throw in the towel? No link yet.

http://nlpc.org/stories/2010/02/28/flaherty-rangel-had-know-junkets-corporate-sponsorship (VIDEO) Fox News Channel reports on the House Ethics Committee's admonition of Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel for accepting travel from Citigroup and other corporations. NLPC President Peter Flaherty, who exposed the violation, says Rangel had to be aware of corporate sponsorship. Click here to download one-page pdf transcript.Related: Rangel Scandal TimelineSubmitted by Peter Flaherty on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 09:24 With the spotlight this week on House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY), we have prepared this timeline of his current problems. Rangel has been involved in so much controversy that it is difficult to keep...

Congressman Charles Rangel was far from humbled after the ethics committee admonished him for taking corporate-paid Caribbean junkets in violation of the House ethics code. Rather, the New York Democrat berated the panel’s leaders on the House floor. The moment was characteristic of Mr. Rangel’s arrogance throughout the investigation, which continues into more serious allegations about his official behavior. It is one more reason why Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who championed ethics reform — should stop protecting him and relieve him of his crucial role as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

WASHINGTON - President Obama abandoned his defense of Rep. Charles Rangel against a raft of ethics charges Friday as a handful of rank-and-file Dems echoed GOP demands to demand that Rangel give up his chairman's gavel. White House officials have privately called Rangel "untouchable" in the past, but Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama stressed that "rules are put in place for a reason and that those rules can and must apply to each and every person." Obama also said that members of Congress "ought to be accountable," Gibbs reported, "and that applies to everyone," including the powerful 79-year-old Harlem...

An amputee missing both legs was arrested Thursday after police said he was wheeled into a busy New York City train station and planted a bomb. Police found the bomb before it could detonate, but the discovery interrupted regional train lines briefly and closed the station for several hours. The alleged device—a bag of small explosives wrapped in shotgun shells, along with bullets, glue, lug nuts, pens and a ruler—was left in a waiting area at a station in Harlem. Police later surveyed security videos to identify suspects including, Roosevelt Terry, the amputee. Police from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which...

For the past 22 years, I have dedicated my life to serving my community as a New York City pastor and spiritual leader. I have counseled the suffering, married couples, helped the grieving, fed the hungry and have acted as a liaison between my community and the government. This week, I took what I believe to be the next logical step in that commitment — by announcing my candidacy to become the next member to the United States House of Representatives for the 15th Congressional District. The system in Washington, DC, is broken at a time of enormous challenges and...

A Muslim chaplain for the city’s Department of Correction showed up for work on Wednesday as he routinely does — entering the city jail in Lower Manhattan to minister to some of the roughly 900 male inmates there. But when the chaplain, Imam Zulqarnain Abu-Shahid, flung his shoulder bag onto an X-ray machine at the entrance of the Manhattan Detention Complex, at 125 White Street, officers were alerted to the presence of metal. They found a pair of scissors and three metal blades, the kind used in box cutters, in the bag’s outer flap, the authorities said. Imam Abu-Shahid was...

In greater Harlem...blacks are no longer a majority of the population — a shift that actually occurred a decade ago, but was largely overlooked. By 2008, their share had declined to 4 in 10 residents. Since 2000, central Harlem’s population has grown more than in any other decade since the 1940s, to 126,000 from 109,000, but its black population — about 77,000 in central Harlem and about twice that in greater Harlem — is smaller than at any time since the 1920s. In 2008, 22 percent of the white households in Harlem had moved to their present homes within the...

(Video) Harlem Pastor sees pure evil in Obama

For more than three decades, they sang Mozart in Latin, Bach in German, and Cole Porter and Stevie Wonder in English, from Alice Tully Hall in New York to Royal Albert Hall in London. For the audiences that marveled at the Boys Choir of Harlem, it was an additional wonder that the young performers with world-class voices had emerged from some of the most difficult neighborhoods of New York. December was always a busy month, as the choir toured the country’s premier concert halls and appeared on television Christmas specials. But this year, the boys are nowhere to be found....

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Congressman Charles Rangel has let New York down with his financial sacandals. New York waited for decades to gain the kind of congressional clout that Rep. Charlie Rangel has wielded as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and now he has let the home team down. Big time. To say that Rangel has become damaged goods is to engage in understatement. His Republican adversaries are taking full advantage of Rangel's many transgressions to make him a walking, talking symbol of Washington hubris for all of America to scorn. Unfortunately for him and for his Democratic colleagues - and,...

In a lengthy story today titled “The case against Charlie Rangel,” New York Post reporters Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein examine “forty years of tax evasion, misdeeds and contempt.” Most interesting is their account of how Rangel tapped into a housing program for poor people to renovate his Harlem brownstone into six units, one of which continued to be his residence. It’s the same building cited by NLPC in a September 16 Complaint to the Ethics Committee. On his financial disclosure forms, Rangel reported little or no rental income for eight years (1993-2001) from the six units, even though public...

Why hasn't Charlie Rangel stepped down?After documented reports of his sweetheart deals, influence peddling, unreported assets, and untaxed income, Charlie Rangel is still chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means. Can't anyone tell him to move aside? Francis Wilkinson Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Glenn Beck launched an attack against the Obama administration's "green jobs" director Van Jones in the last week of August. By Labor Day, Jones was FOX-kill. Compare that to the results achieved by The New York Times and The Washington Post, both of which have called for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to step down...

Once upon a time, before I began an interview with Rep. Charles Rangel, I was warned by an aide not to bring up the 1970 race in which the upstart Rangel defeated the virtually legendary Adam Clayton Powell to gain his House seat. In the intervening years, Powell had gone from has-been to icon, with both a state office building and a boulevard named for him in Harlem, and it did Rangel no good in his district to be remembered as the man who brought down Powell — a little bit of history that desperately needed airbrushing. snip There is...

Rangel rally in Harlem draws fansBY Tanyankika Samuels and Erin Einhorn DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Sunday, September 13th 2009, 4:00 AM Though he's facing critics in Washington over financial improprieties, Rep. Charles Rangel got nothing but love at home Saturday. "I'm here to show support for my brother," said former Mayor David Dinkins who was among 75 local politicians, church leaders and union members who rallied for Rangel in Harlem. "He's a very powerful member of Congress, and they would like to take him down. But that's not going to happen." Rangel, who wasn't at the event, has not been...

Rep. Charlie Rangel's multimillion-dol lar "oops" this month raises plenty of good questions, but this may be the best: How can Democrats continue to close their eyes to such sleaze?

Rangel discloses $660K more in assets By: John Bresnahan August 25, 2009 08:05 PM EST New financial disclosure reports filed by Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) show that the veteran lawmaker failed to report more than $660,000 in assets during 2007, a potential violation of House ethics rules. Rangel, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, also had previously stated that he sold a Florida condominium in 2007, but an amended report covering that year – filed in mid-August – now makes no mention of that transaction. It appears that Rangel no longer owns the condo as it is...

Maybe when City College of NY is done building Charlie Rangel's favorite Pork project, the $1.95 million, federal earmark funded Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service one of the first courses they could teach is "Playing Fast and Loose with Ethics 101." This past year, Americans have gotten to see the true nature of congressman Rangal. In September he admitted a failure to report $75 thousand in taxes. Rangel is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, they write the tax law. You would think that he would be extra-careful to make sure that he would follow...

New York's top cop on Saturday defended the shotgun-toting Harlem businessman who became a reluctant hero by blasting the bandits terrorizing his store. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Charles (Gus) Augusto "acted in self-defense" when he killed two thugs and wounded two more on Thursday. "He certainly had the right to defend himself and his co-workers," he said. "I know he took no pleasure in this thing. It was the toughest day of his life." Kelly spoke as officials prepared to arraign the two tough guys who survived being shot by Augusto on Thursday. "No one could take pleasure in...

ON the streets and in the stores of Harlem, Charles Augusto Jr. is a caped crusader. Elderly and unassuming, the senior is a savior to the neighborhood in which he spends his days. He's Clint Eastwood with a belly. And a credit to humanity. SNIP "I was hoping I could have talked them out of it. I'm sorry they're dead, but they didn't give me any other choice," he said.