“Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain’t never killed nobody.” -Moms Mabley Tweet
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NYPD & Microsoft Team Up To Make A $40 Million “Super-Computer”
The New York City Police Department has entered into a joint venture with Microsoft to create a data-collecting “super-computer.” The computer system will allow law enforcement to access live-video feeds from an extensive network of cameras. The “super-computer” will also reportedly be linked to crime-reports, radiation detectors, and license-plate readers. It will be able to […]
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A black navigator, Pedro Alonso Niño, allegedly traveled with Christopher Columbus on his first trip to the “New World.” Tweet
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“Go put your creed into your deed.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Tweet
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A New York City racketeering case garnered an interesting ruling that concerns facebook users. The defendant in the trial attempted to suppress evidence that was gathered from facebook to hand down his indictment. The defendant used the legal defense that the information, which was obtained via an informant giving law-enforcement investigators access to the defendant’s […]
Read the rest of this entry »Be Safe…A Little Discernment Wouldn’t Hurt Either
With the rising evidence of so many people engaging in risky sexual behavior, there has yet to emerge a powerful educational campaign for STD prevention. There also seems to be a dangerous imbalance between the proliferation of have sex messages, have safe sex messages, and abstinence messages in the media. With that being said, it […]
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John Baxter Taylor was the first African-American to win a gold medal in the Olympics. He participated in the 1908 Olympics in London. Tweet
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” -Frederick Douglass Tweet
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“You can’t sell me melon without seeds. Just like you can’t sell me white-and-yellow corn. I don’t fool with no food that’s messed over by man. On the way home, if I see a stand on the side of the road, I’ll stop to see what they got. If they got corn and I spot […]
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