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Watch: The Notorious B.I.G. Quiz: How Well Does Brooklyn, NY, Know Biggie’s Music?
Things done changed in Bed-Stuy. It’s now one of the most gentrified areas in Brooklyn, N.Y., affecting everything from voting to schooling. Fancy coffee, avocado toast and almond croissants are on every corner. It’s an everyday struggle for longtime residents to pay the unbelievable rents. The Root hit the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant without warning to…
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NYC Biggie Mural to Be Destroyed by Landlord
A Brooklyn, N.Y., landlord plans to remove a mural of Biggie Smalls to make room for windows and raise rent prices. Two years ago, the mural was placed on the side of an apartment building on the corner of Bedford Avenue and Quincy Street in Biggie’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, but Samuel Berkowitz, the building’s landlord, said…
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NYC Principal Arrested After Allegedly Beating 7-Year-Old Student
Machael Spencer-Edwards, a principal at Public School 202 in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s East New York neighborhood, was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly beating a 7-year-old student. According to the New York Daily News, Spencer-Edwards was arrested on charges of assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child because of an incident March 13, when…
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NYC Man Plummets to His Death After Trying to Escape Police Out of Window
In a Facebook Live video, Jamel Chandler, 21, of Brooklyn, N.Y., said that he hadn’t been home for a month and that cops were knocking at his door to arrest him. In an attempt to evade arrest, Chandler tied together some bedsheets and tried to escape from a window of the 11th-floor apartment where he…
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Top 10 Blackest Experiences From the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival, the badass downtown sister to golden girl Sundance, is back on these screens April 19-28. Like the New York neighborhood it’s named for, every year TFF becomes richer; fortunately, as with Hollywood (though not the nabe so much), black images, people and stories abound. There is much at the festival that…
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NYC Rollerblader With Dreams of Becoming Doctor Killed in Hit-and-Run
A Brooklyn, N.Y., 21-year-old who had dreams of becoming a doctor was killed Saturday by an alleged hit-and-run driver in the New York City borough. Michael Joefield was a premed student at Medgar Evers College and worked as a florist in his spare time, his girlfriend said, according to the New York Post. “He was…
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NYC Man Indicted on Rape, Murder of Jogger
A Brooklyn, N.Y., man, who is accused of rape and murder in the death of 30-year-old jogger Karina Vetrano was formally indicted by a Queens, N.Y., grand jury Wednesday on four counts of first-degree murder, five counts of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual abuse and two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Chanel…
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‘You Wanna Ride the Lightning?’ NYC Cops Heard in Video Threatening Students With Taser
Recently surfaced video shows two New York City police officers apparently taunting students from a Brooklyn high school, threatening them with a Taser as they walk down the street. The video, recorded in mid-March, appears to show one officer with his baton out in his hand as he and his partner walk down the street,…
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Afeni Shakur’s Estate Files Lawsuit Over Tupac Shakur Memorabilia Auction
Black Heritage Auction recently announced the sale of several items owned by Tupac Shakur, including a worn nose stud, handwritten lyrics and his New York prisoner identification card. But the estate of his late mother, Afeni Shakur, who died of a heart attack May 2, 2016, has filed a lawsuit to stop the auctioning of…
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How Gentrification Destroys Black Voting Power
Remember when the nation’s capital was so black that Parliament Funkadelic nicknamed Washington, D.C., “Chocolate City”? Maybe you’re old enough to remember when California’s Bay Area was so black that it birthed the Black Panthers and everyone knew what Sir Mix-a-Lot meant when he rapped about an “Oakland booty.” If you’re too young for that,…