Judge Rejects New York’s Stop-and-Frisk Policy
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in the city, repudiating a …
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The Dissappearance of Egypt Air Flight 990
(Statement of Walid Batouty, nephew of Gameel El-Batouty, co-pilot on flight 990) “On October 31st 1999, Egypt Air Flight 990 bound for Cairo mysteriously, plunged …
Kendra Webdale was Killed when a man on Psychiatric Drugs Pushed Her Off of a Subway Platform in NYC.
In January 1999, a young woman was pushed off a subway platform in New York City and killed. The perpetrator was identified in the press …
Was AIDS a Man-Made Virus Introduced When a Group of Gay Men Were Inoculated at the New York Blood Center with a Hep-B Trial Vaccine?
There is no doubt that AIDS erupted in the U.S. shortly after government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments (1978-1981) using gay men as guinea pigs. The …
Student Anti-War Rebellions Erupt Across the U.S. after Nixon Sends US Troops from Vietnam into Cambodia
On April 30, 1970, then President Richard Milhouse Nixon announced he was sending US troops from Vietnam into Cambodia, a diplomatically-neutral country. His announcement set …
Louis McFadden, Opponent of Federal Reserve, Dies Suddenly of Heart Failure
Few recall, however, how controversial the Fed was when it was first proposed and then maneuvered through a recessing Congress just before Christmas 1913. Rep. …
Margaret Sanger Opens the First Legal Birth Control Clinic in Harlem, NY
In 1929, 10 years before Sanger created the Negro Project, the American Birth Control League laid the groundwork for a clinic in Harlem, a largely …
Margaret Sanger Opens the USA’s First Birth Control Clinic on Amboy Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn
Sanger opened the clinic on October 16th 1916, along with her sister Ethyl Byrne, who was a registered nurse, and an interpreter named Fania Mindell. …
1906 NY Gubernatorial Race:
The 1906 New York gubernatorial race was one for the ages: The current president stepping in for a future presidential candidate, a propaganda war, and …
Brooklyn Health Dept. Forces Small Business to Quarantine Because Healthy Employees Refused to be Vaccinated
On May 2, 1894, two health department vaccinators visited a livery stable in the Greenpoint neighborhood where William H. Smith operated an express delivery and …