A new rabbi from Nebraska, who once converted the head of the KKK in Nebraska to Judaism, is trying to revitalize the Free Synagogue of Flushing.
Mon 5 Jan 2009
Filed under: Ku Klux Klan, Anti-Semitism, Flushing (NYC), Rabbis, Synagogues, Religion and Churches, Queens (NYC), Race, Jews — @ 5:39 am
Thu 18 Dec 2008
One man’s campaign to bridge the divide between a wealthy, majority white school district and a working-class, overwhelmingly minority district.
Thu 18 Dec 2008
One man’s campaign to bridge the divide between a wealthy, majority white school district and a working-class, overwhelmingly minority district.
Tue 9 Dec 2008
Filed under: poverty, gentrification, Census, Census Bureau, Income, Surveys and Series, Race, Immigration and Refugees, Education and Schools, Economic Conditions and Trends, Housing, New York City — @ 5:25 pm
New figures provide hard evidence of trends involving shifts in housing patterns, education and demographics.
Tue 9 Dec 2008
Filed under: poverty, gentrification, Census, Census Bureau, Income, Surveys and Series, Race, Immigration and Refugees, Education and Schools, Economic Conditions and Trends, Housing, New York City — @ 8:05 am
New figures provide hard evidence of trends involving shifts in housing patterns, education and demographics.
Sat 6 Dec 2008
Filed under: Doormen, Building Service Employees, Spitzer, Bernard, Race, Discrimination, Bronx (NYC), Decisions and Verdicts, Courts, Suits and Litigation — @ 6:45 am
A jury awarded more than $1.3 million to a black doorman and three black porters who had filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Bernard Spitzer.
Tue 25 Nov 2008
Filed under: Civil Rights and Liberties, September 11 (2001), Race, Terrorism, Suits and Litigation — @ 4:22 am
A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled that the government could not use ethnicity as justification for detaining two Egyptian-born men who were questioned for four hours after a cross-country flight in 2004.
Fri 7 Nov 2008
Filed under: Tests and Testing, Race, Private and Sectarian Schools, Education and Schools, New York City — @ 7:57 pm
Asian and white eighth graders in the city are outpacing their black and Hispanic peers on an admissions test.
Fri 7 Nov 2008
Filed under: Tests and Testing, Race, Private and Sectarian Schools, Education and Schools, New York City — @ 7:32 pm
Black and Hispanic students lag on the test to enter the city’s top three schools.
Tue 28 Oct 2008
Filed under: Minorities (US), Mortgages, Race, Blacks, Hispanic-Americans, Housing, New York City — @ 12:40 am
New mortgages to blacks and Hispanics fell sharply in New York City in 2007 while staying flat for white borrowers and rising for Asian-Americans.