On this edition of ‘The Countdown,’ Eyewitness News dug deeper into Tuesday’s New York Democratic primary and the major races as candidates worked to pick up any last minute votes. HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) — Police are searching for two people wanted for a broad-daylight shootout on a busy Harlem street. It happened around 7:30 p.m. on […]
The Big Apple says at least 1,000 will enter the school system next month. New York City on Friday announced that it is launching a program to get hundreds of migrant children into schools, just as the “sanctuary” city is dealing with a surge in illegal immigrants being bused in from Texas. The program, named “Project […]
Civil rights leader Clara Luper poses with a photograph from her scrapbooks at a community center in Oklahoma City, Okla., in August 1983. Sixty-four years ago Friday, 13 Black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Oklahoma City, shaping the course of the civil rights movement. Other sit-ins, like the Feb. 1, 1960, […]
A Chicago educator named Dwayne Reed is paying musical tribute to kindergarten students and their teachers. Dwayne Reed has a knack for speaking to kids through music.Mr. Reed via YouTube A teacher’s “Welcome to Kindergarten” song is helping to reduce first-day-of-school anxieties for many children this year. Dwayne Reed, a dean of students at a […]
Here’s one increase in city traffic that won’t have you pounding a car hood: The waters of our archipelago city have been rife with sightings of marine life all summer long. While sharks have gotten the most attention, pictures of whales, bottlenose dolphins, rays and other underwater urbanites have flooded social media, enchanting beachgoers and dramatically updating perceptions […]
Brittney Griner is escorted from the court room following her Russian trial. Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/Reuters The WNBA star Brittney Griner was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to nine years in Russian prison after customs agents found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage in February. Griner’s team has appealed the decision, but if she’s not included in […]
A North Minneapolis nonprofit on Wednesday announced the largest donation in the organization’s 11-year history. Appetite For Change co-founder and President Tasha Powell said the $1.5-million-dollar gift is a dream come true for the organization. “We have spent the last year really focusing on building infrastructure throughout the organization so the timing is perfect,” Powell […]
Phoenix — An American Airlines flight recently made history when, for the first time in the carrier’s 96-year existence, everyone involved from the ramp to the gate to the cockpit and cabin were all Black women. The recent flight from Phoenix to Dallas celebrated the 100th anniversary of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to […]
John W. Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association, has criticized a change to the eligibility criteria for USDA loan relief under the Inflation Reduction Act as “a huge loss for us and other Black farmers.” Lester Bonner, a tobacco farmer in Virginia, opened his mailbox one morning last June to find a […]
David and Deborah Hajda were audited after spending money to rebuild a tractor Cattle ranchers recount grueling IRS audits, issue warning to Americans: ‘They want to get you’ Raising Five Cattle Company ranchers Deborah and David Hajda recount their grueling experience with an IRS audit. Texas cattle ranchers David and Deborah Hajda issued a dire […]