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Save this story for later. Alicka Ampry-Samuel works out of a two-story office building overlooking an expanse of vacant land, in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. She grew up a few blocks away, in one of the area’s nearly two dozen public-housing complexes. When she was fifteen, her closest friend, a girl she’d known since early childhood, got into an argument with a boy from another housing development. “And he pulled out a gun,” Ampry-Samuel said. The funeral was held at the St. Paul Community Baptist Church, a local institution. Teen-agers filled the pews. In the eulogy, a...

Eric Adams Wants To Bring Back The NYPD’s Most Controversial Unit arrow This story is part of a joint reporting project from Gothamist/ . On a spring afternoon in 2015, three NYPD officers were on patrol in Bedford-Stuyvesant, when they noticed a red Chevy Impala with dark tinted windows.  Officers Vaughan Ettienne, Ryan Galvin, and Mark Xylas, part of their precinct’s plainclothes Anti-Crime team, pulled the car over. Police said they smelled the odor of marijuana. When the driver couldn't provide the proper paperwork, the cops said, they ordered the driver out of the car.  T...

CBS News "Defund the police" made headlines. What does it look like now? Watch the CBSN Originals documentary "What Does It Mean to Defund the Police?" in the video player above. "Defund the police" became a rallying cry during Black Lives Matter protests across the U.S. and around the world in the summer of 2020, following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of police. But in the months since, how has the debate developed, and what does it mean for American communities? A new documentary from CBSN Originals features voices on different sides of the issue to hel...

Will Corey break the speaker curse? One might say that Corey Johnson already fell victim to the City Council speaker curse. After all, his run for mayor ended before it began, when he closed his fledgling campaign in September and became the latest speaker to unsuccessfully seek higher office after leading the city’s legislative body. Three of the four speakers before him ran for mayor and lost in the Democratic primary. The other, Melissa Mark-Viverito, ran for both public advocate, then Congress, and lost in both primaries. Now six months after opting out of the 2021 elections, Johnson is...

There’s two-fold purpose to this year’s Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival — providing a free, virtual high quality virtual concert with Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Secada and top Jamaican performers, that will benefit “industry professionals impacted by the pandemic