Teacher Under Fire For 'Make It Funny' Assignment About Freed Slaves, 'Don't Bore Me'
Students say the white teacher told students to write "funny" captions on images of freed slaves.
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Students say the white teacher told students to write "funny" captions on images of freed slaves.
The NYPD reports this shooting took place back on Sept. 13. Bullets flew on the streets of Bed-Stuy, hitting a person along Gates Avenue.
"Obviously she'd be a priority," Mayor de Blasio claimed. Margie Beltran says she's not felt prioritized. NYCHA then denied her request to be reimbursed for property damage.
This summer a bill backed by the mayor, that would scrap the admissions test, didn't even go up for a vote in Albany.
Armed with tool kits and bike parts, more than 400 volunteers got to work on Wednesday, proving they'll never forget.
Relatives of mass shooting victims who have seen the trailer for the movie are expressing deep concerns – fearing it could spark a repeat of the massacre inside Colorado cinema seven years ago.
A council panel wants to mandate that city facilities, like big office buildings or courthouses, below 60th Street in Manhattan create a plan to accept deliveries only between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The plan calls for $51.5 billion to fix the subways, buses, Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road over the next five years.
A first of its kind support group is helping rebuild confidence from the basketball court and out into the world.
An ancient Egyptian artifact that had been stolen and passed from owner to owner until ending up sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $4 million, was given back to Egypt on Wednesday.
Some local anti-gun violence groups will be representing the Tri-State Area at today's national rally to end gun violence.
Innovative companies and cutting edge technology are now at students' fingertips.
A total of 312 people were sickened by measles since last October in Rockland County where a state of emergency had to be declared.
President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today in New York, a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally initiated the impeachment process.
After 51 consecutive seasons with the Met, tonight's opening performance of "Macbeth" will go on without the world-renowned tenor's booming voice.
Workers were left to clean up at the BP station on Hillside Avenue in Jamaica on Wednesday morning
The house on Balcom Avenue in Throggs Neck was a smelly mess, with bottles of urine in the driveway, mosquitoes, flies and even a bucket of dead fish.
Danish artist Jeppe Hein launched his "Breathe With Me" art installation this week at the United Nations Climate Summit, and now it's coming to Central Park.
Christopher Morgan was killed and 21 others were injured when their military vehicle overturned on the way to a training exercise outside campus in June.
WeWork's co-founder Adam Neumann has been forced out of his position as CEO.
The two men say they were eating at a restaurant on Roosevelt Avenue when a group of men started yelling anti-gay slurs at them.
The premiere of survivor season 39, "Island of the Idols" airs Wednesday night at 8 p.m. here on CBS and CBS All Access.
"You won't see these images anywhere else. They've just been down here and recently unearthed," NYPD senior photographer Kristina Fetkovich said.
The opera legend indicated that he would never again perform at the Met.
The new library on Center Boulevard has everything you'd expect from a modern library, books, computers, and more books.
