Author: Mohammed AlShaaban (Mohammed AlShaaban)

  Regina Morgan joined forces with over 350 public school parents in a mayoral forum on 2 May 2013, to demand answers about the future of her children’s education. With her two kids attending PS-29 in Cobble Hill, she added her voice to that of concerned parents over Mayor Bloomberg’s educational policies. “The current system has to change,” Morgan...

If Wednesday’s Democratic Mayoral Debate at St. Francis Colleges is indicative of voter interest in the upcoming Mayoral election, we are in for an intense race. The turnout was so high for the candidate forum that brought together five of the seven Democratic contenders, that many people who showed up did not even make it...

Last month, the NYPD released the Stop-and-Frisk statistics report for the year 2011, which underscored a broad public controversy about the NYPD’s  “stop-and-frisk” policy and charges of racial profiling. The data showed that African American and Hispanic New Yorkers accounted for the majority of the nearly 700,000 stops for that year, 52.9 and 33.7 percent...

What was supposed to be a peaceful vigil turned into a full-fledged riot Wednesday night along Church Av. in East Flatbush, as protesters clashed with the police in a march to the 67th precinct. Police made about 40 arrests. Over 400 New Yorkers had gathered at the corner between Church Av. and 55th Street in...

  On February 10th, Latoya Dixon, a 29-year-old, African American Muslim woman, was on her way to pick up her husband from work. When she got out of her car, she was stopped by a police officer who said she made a right on a red turn somewhere along her route.  As she questioned the...