Locked Up Too Long Says the NYCLU

By Urban Thought at 27 March, 2007, 7:00 pm

NYCLU reports people arrested by the NYPD are kept in lock up way too long. 16 years ago the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that arrestees must be arraigned within 24 hours. This isn’t the case according to the NYCLU. Detainees are being held up to 50 hours before seeing a judge. Click [...]

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Couple Gives Birth To A Dark Baby, She is Forced to Raise

By Urban Thought at 23 March, 2007, 5:24 pm

Couple Sues Fertility Clinic for Wrong Sperm Lawsuit Says Baby Darker Than Either Parent AP NEW YORK (March 23) – A couple can proceed with a lawsuit against a fertility clinic they filed after the wife gave birth to a daughter whose skin they thought was too dark to be their child, a judge has [...]

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240-year sentence for NYC hate crimes

By Urban Thought at 23 March, 2007, 12:00 pm

NEW YORK – A judge gave a 240-year prison sentence Wednesday to a black man who took hostages in an East Village bar, injuring several with bullets and kerosene, while telling the patrons that “white people are going to burn tonight.” State Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley told Steven Johnson, 39, that he had forfeited [...]

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Will NYC High Schools Return to The Garden?

By Urban Thought at 21 March, 2007, 9:30 am

WPvideo 1.10 After this past weekend’s High School Championship at The Garden the NYC Department of Education is thinking of not having games at night. Taking it one step further, Bloomberg has also suggested that all High School Championship games occur without an audience (19 of the 21 people arrested were not from either high school that was [...]

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Michael Jackson throws diva tantrums in London

By Urban Thought at 20 March, 2007, 11:00 am

NEW YORK: Pop star Michael Jackson has created a fuss at a posh London hotel since he checked in there incognito by registering as a woman. Newsweek.com quoted London Evening Standard as saying: “Jackson would certainly give J Lo (Jennifer Lopez) a good run for her money on the diva stakes by bringing a team [...]

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Sean Bell vs. The City of New York

By Urban Thought at 20 March, 2007, 8:33 am

It isn’t the Black People vs. White People its more like Black vs. Blue. It isn’t Al Sharpton vs. NYPD but the Black Community/Human Rights vs. The City of New York/America. In a never ending battle for justice in the streets of the city we find ourselves as targets in the streets we use to [...]

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Mayor Bloomberg MIA: NYC Pissed Off

By Urban Thought at 17 March, 2007, 12:00 pm

While a Bronx blaze took the lives of nine people, eight of which were children, Mayor Bloomberg found himself in the warm climate of Miami. Did this sit well with New Yorkers who find it hard to believe that its own Mayor wouldn’t be on site lending his support, grief, and sympathy for the lives [...]

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Attack on NYC 101 Year Old Woman caught on Tape

By Crooked I at 14 March, 2007, 5:56 pm

If you have been living under a rock then you aren’t aware of the dude that has been going around robbing old ladies in the vestibule of their buildings. I want to commend this dude on being a disgrace to all of society. Its one thing to go after someone your own age, size, and [...]

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Viacom Sues YouTube, Google For $1 Billion

By Urban Thought at 14 March, 2007, 10:14 am

(CBS News) NEW YORK MTV owner Viacom Inc. said Tuesday it has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google Inc. for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than $1 billion in damages.read more | digg story

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Eight children from Mali die in New York City fire

By Urban Thought at 9 March, 2007, 11:24 am

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nine immigrants from Mali, including eight children, died in a house fire after flames raced up the stairs, trapping people on the second floor, officials said on Thursday. Twenty-two people from the West African nation lived in a wooden house that had been split into two apartments in the Bronx section [...]

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Election Day 2006

By Urban Thought at 7 November, 2006, 12:22 pm

Election Day is finally here. I haven’t had a chance to vote just yet. After work is the best time to go. The good news is I won’t have to wait online. The bad news is there will be more election workers than voters. The people in my community don’t vote as they should. Two important [...]

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On The Way Home: Taxi Ride

By Urban Thought at 3 November, 2006, 3:57 am

Sitting at your work desk til 1am is the norm for some folks but not me. That is what happen to me this morning as a deadline needed to be met and I was stuck at my desk trying to pump out as much productivity a normal eight hour day cannot handle. Good thing that [...]

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