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‘Out Here Saying the N Word With the Hard R’: New York Governor Cuomo Blasted for Saying N-Word In Comparing Italian Struggle to Blacks
Some social media users aren’t too happy with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after he used both the N-word and a slur used to describe Italian immigrants on live radio. The Democratic governor was reading from a New York Times editorial about the racist language Tuesday when he appeared on the public radio station…
Video proves school bus monitor let two white students unleash racist attack against classmate
“In New York, violence of any kind towards others based on their race or religion is not only offensive and repugnant to our values, it is illegal.” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered a formal investigation into a potential hate crime against an African-American student on a school bus earlier this month.
New York Becomes Latest State to Ban Hair Discrimination
It’s now illegal in two major states to discriminate against Black people because of their hairstyles or textures. New York followed California’s lead on Friday and became the latest state to ban hair discrimination when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Assembly bill No. 07797 into law.
8-year-old living in homeless shelter wins New York chess championship: ‘I want to be the youngest grandmaster’
Nigerian refugee, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, 8, took first place in the New York State Scholastic Championships tournament. USA TODAY An 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter has won the New York State chess championship for his age bracket. “I want to be the youngest grandmaster,” Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee who goes by Tani, told The…
Woman suing Harvard over slave portraits gets key support
In this March 20, 2019 file photo Tamara Lanier attends a news conference near the Harvard Club, in New York. Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., is suing the Harvard University for “wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation” of images she says depict two of her ancestors. Descendants of a Harvard professor who commissioned a series of 1850…
