Articles Tagged “Crown Heights”
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PHOTOS: Super Wings and NYS Assemblyman deliver successful Back to School Festival.
Colette Burnett and Super Wings NY, in partnership with New York State Assemblyman Karim Camara, recently hosted the Super 3rd Annual Union-Nostrand Street Festival and Back to School Give Back, on August 18th. The festival take place at the home of Brooklyn’s Best Wings on Union Street between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues in the Crown [...]
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WIADCA New President, Thomas Bailey, Issues First Statement.
After months of our vocal outraged by lack of transparency, accountability and action by the West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) committee, we at JayBlessed.com are elated to see that new changes are now in effect in the antiquated governing body of the annual Labor Day celebrations. My letter to WIADCA…. We are pleased [...]
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VIDEO: Colette Burnette & SuperWings NY featured on FOX 5′s Good Day New York.
Trinidadian-born restauranteur Colette Cyrus-Burnette, owner of SuperWings NY, was recently featured on Fox 5′s Good Day New York. The entrepreneur who also reps Crown Heights-Brooklyn was featured on the January 11th show, where she cooked up one of Super Wings’ most popular offerings, “Trini Tambarind Wings.” Check some behind the scenes photos of Cyrus-Burnette at [...]
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NY Council Members have not forgotten racist remarks by NYPD against West Indians.
New Yorkers of varying races and religions rallied Saturday to demand more accountability from city police, accusing the nation’s largest force of targeting innocent blacks, Latinos and Muslims while tracking crime. If city officials don’t acknowledge that the police department “has created a system of apartheid in this city of New York, we are going [...]
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Can West Indian Day Paradegoers ever trust NYPD after “animals” & “savages” rant
I read this New York Times story yesterday by WILLIAM GLABERSON and wasn’t too shocked by the honesty of the NYPD cops about the West Indian Day Parade in their Facebook group “No More West Indian Day Detail.” Racial profiling runs rampant in NYPD especially when the majority of the causcasian NYPD cops are stationed [...]
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LABOR DAY: West Indian Carnival Parade 2011 marred by shootings!
A cop was wounded in a gun battle Monday night, capping off a terrifying spate of shootings that left three people dead and marred Brooklyn‘s West Indian Day Parade. Monday’s shooting surge wounded eight and put the number of people shot over the weekend around the city to at least 47. It came the same [...]
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Check out the WIADCA – Labor Day teaser flyer inside!
North America’s largest gathering of West Indians and Caribbean nationals is The Labor Day Parade or West Indian Carnival. The annual celebration, which is on the first Monday in September in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, is the climax of all carnivals. Bringing together people from all the islands, lovers of the Caribbean culture and [...]
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Meet the Hasidic Jewish Reggae artiste – MATISYAHU
For those of you that don’t know…Hasidic Jews can throw it down when it comes to Reggae! When Matthew Paul Miller was born in 1979, it was unheard of to see a Hasidic Jewish American’s face plastered on MTV. However, under the stage name Matisyahu, he broke every stereotype of his Jewish Orthodox religion. Still very [...]
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