Warning: This video is extremely graphic and contains disturbing images that may be upsetting to watch. For almost three minutes, no one–not even an adult or an employee–stopped a now infamous fight inside a Brooklyn McDonald’s, leading the teens to brutalize each other on camera. So far, one arrest has been made. Sixteen-year-old Aniah Ferguson was one […]
NYPD police officer Peter Liang has been indicted today in the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley in Brooklyn on November 2014. Gurley was unarmed in the “pitch black” stairwell of the Louis H. Pink Houses project when he and Liang crossed paths and the officer fired a single shot. MUST READ: Eric Holder Calls Lack […]
Just two weeks ago, we reported on how Humans of New York profiled 13-year-old Vidal Chastanet who praised his principal Ms. Nadia Lopez because “She told each one of us that we matter.” Social media picked up on the story and after a boatload of likes, comments and shares that led to a fundraiser, over a million dollars has been raised […]
Brooklyn Flavors: We’ve bottled some Brooklyn historical neighborhoods and streets with a scent of their own. From the art, to the books, music, to underneath the bridge, to the sounds, the donuts, the mermaid parades, to the beaches, to the Caribbean food and more, Brooklyn is one of the best places on earth. Of course […]
15-year-old Isiah Joseph out of the Flatlands neighborhood in Brooklyn was shot in the back in broad daylight around 1:00PM on Sunday while another young man was hit in the hip and backside. Authorities are claiming it might have been a gang-related situation, as Joseph and the injured man were seen arguing with three men and one of them […]
3-year-old Brooklyn tot, Jeida Torres was brutally beaten to death by her mother’s boyfriend, Kelsey Smith in Brooklyn after she accidentally went to the bathroom on herself. “She either pooped her pants or peed on herself, and he got agitated,” a source said. According to the responding the police, Torres was clinging to life when […]
#TeamBeautiful will be hosting a screening of “1982” at Brooklyn Academy Of Music this Saturday, March 29, 2014 as a part of New Voices In Black Cinema, presented by ActNow Foundation, in partnership with BAMcinematek. This Tommy Oliver directed film is an emotional debut that chronicles a Philadelphia father’s struggle to protect his daughter from […]
When Spike Lee has strong feelings on anything Brooklyn-related, the public is bound to hear about them. This is, after all, the man behind some of his home borough’s most iconic films, like Do the Right Thing, Crooklyn and She’s Gotta Have It. During a Black History Month lecture at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute earlier this week, Lee lashed out on the […]
A Brooklyn woman (pictured center) was struck in the head by a stranger in an unprovoked attack in East New York Tuesday afternoon, the New…
It looks like “Christopher Wallace Way” is a no-go. According to reports, Brooklyn community board members objected to naming the intersection of St. James Place and Fulton Street after the late Bigge Smalls. Residents cited the rapper was too fat and a criminal. After looking “up the rapper’s history,” committee member Lucy Koteen said Notorious […]
Russell Simmons can motivate almost anyone to part with their money. But it means so much more when it’s for a good cause. For the…
