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The Affordable Care Act deadline is fast-approaching. NYC-based celebrities and community leaders banded together Friday to organize a #GetCovered tour through three of the city’s five…

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The Obama administration last week that 5 million people had signed up for the Affordable Care Act’s exchange plans – still short of their 6 million…

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The death toll has risen to seven in Wednesday’s gas explosion that rocked a New York City neighborhood. One of the victims – who lived…

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A New York man killed himself exactly 27 years to the day that he and his friends were shot by a man on a Subway train. SEE ALSO: The Disappearing Black Journalist

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A New York City hedge fund manager will pay for the funeral of the Brooklyn woman who was set on fire and killed in her building’s elevator last week. SEE ALSO: The 9-to-5 Workday About To Be Gone? Darren Weingrow did not know the deceased grandmother, Delores Gillespie, but decided to donate after hearing her […]

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NEW YORK-NAACP President, Ben Jealous has vowed to fight for a living wage in New York City, where the cost of living is higher than most of the rest of the country. Jealous is in support of a city council bill that would raise the minimum wage in New York to $10 an hour. Yes! […]

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Now that you have your duffel bags and travel kits out from Memorial Day weekend, it’s time to start planning your trips for the summer. We all know that with today’s economy gas prices and plane ticket prices are shooting off the charts. Don’t let this keep you from exploring this summer! Pick a few […]

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In the storm of anger and accusation over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero, one thing seems clear to Laique Khan: His fellow Muslims have a right to build the project. “If this really is a free country,” said Mr. Khan, 56, the manager of a trucking company in Brooklyn, “then, by […]

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From The Wall Street Journal When Bronx student Justus Williams started third grade at P.S. 70, his mother, Latisha, urged him to take on chess. The hobby was “less common” than basketball, she said. But Justus wasn’t enthusiastic at first. “I thought I was going to be embarrassed,” he said. As it turned out, mom […]

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From CNN.com: Authorities hunting for the suspect in the botched Times Square bombing dramatically beat the clock overnight, seizing a Pakistani-American citizen moments before he began a long trip to his strife-torn homeland. Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested around 11:45 p.m. ET Monday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, said Attorney General Eric […]