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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]