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For the second time in as many weeks a grand jury has found the evidence is just not there to charge a white Police Officer in connection with the death of a black civilian. This time its in the biggest city in the nation packed with tourists for the Holiday Season. These cases are wildly different and half a nation apart. This one involves the video seen around the world by now showing a man named eric garner being taken down by mostly plain clothed Police Officers while being placed under arrest. One of the officers employed a chokehold. Moments later while on the ground after complaining he...

Queens political fixture Alan Hevesi, who served two decades in the Assembly and as city and state comptroller before resigning over a corruption scandal,

A state legislator from Queens and a city and state comptroller, he was forced to resign in a scandal and later imprisoned in a pay-to-play scheme.

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A sort of collective amnesia sets in as organizations begin to refer to the new category’s long history and develop narratives about the rich cultural basis of the classification. By then, the category is completely institutionalized, and the new classification is, like other classifications, assumed to have existed. —Cristina Mora, Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats, and Media Constructed a New American