For more 40 years, from his salad days at the Herald Tribune to his many years at Newsday, Jimmy Breslin was, and still is, the quintessential New York City newspaper columnist. Village Voice investigative reporter Tom Robbins-and current Jack Newfield Visiting Professor at Hunter College-asked the Pulitzer Prize-winner to regale his class with stories from the trenches, beginning with his famed interview with the gravedigger at John F. Kennedy’s funeral in 1963.
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The deadline for filing tax returns this year is April 17 and the law requires undocumented immigrants to report income to the Internal Revenue Service. Allan Wernick answers questions about filing tax returns when you don’t have a Social Security number and why it’s important, even for low income earners, to file a tax return.
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Board of Trustees meeting, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, Monday, March 26, 2007.
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Board of Trustees meeting, Academic Policy, Program, and Research , Monday, March 26, 2007.
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Board of Trustees meeting, Committee on Facilities, Planning and Management, Monday, March 26, 2007.
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W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey and other blacks of Caribbean birth played a large role in American history, from the Black Nationalism movement to the Harlem Renaissance, according to Evelyn Julmisse, professor of African American Studies at Queens College. Their stories hold important messages for all Americans, but none more so than large numbers of Americans of Caribbean descent who live in New York City and the nation.
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Explosive situations are all part of a day’s work for the New York City Bomb Squad, the nation’s oldest and most fabled law enforcement group of its kind. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Esposito and ABC News producer Ted Gerstein tailed the squad to write “Bomb Squad: A Year Inside the Nation’s Most Exclusive Police Unit.” Joined by William McCarthy, former squad commander, the authors share their bomb squad stories: from donning ninety-pound protective suits in sweltering heat to disabling a runaway dog reportedly strapped with explosives.
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Why do we need a public advocate? To find out what citizens need and make sure they get it, says Betsy Gotbaum, who was elected to that New York City office and views her role as overseeing the operations of the city. Gotbaum asks a number of questions she says that no one has answered. First subject: the proposed third reorganization of the city schools. If the second reorganization was so successful, she says, why do we need a third try? Gotbaum also talks about what she would do differently if she were mayor.
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A primitive lie detector test and an ancient treatment for heart disease are two examples Africa’s age-old tradition of scientific achievement, a tradition that serves as an inspiration today as more and more blacks seek careers in the sciences. Mathematics Professor Terrance Blackman of Medgar Evers College and Dr. Dexter McKenzie, president of the Provident Clinical Society of Brooklyn, argue that science and society benefit when the scientific community nurtures and mentors blacks in the sciences.
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Federal immigration officials granted Mamadou Soumare permission to travel home to his native country of Mali to bury his wife and four of his children who perished in an horrific fire in the Bronx on March 7. Allan Wernick talks about this decision, called an advanced parole, by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service and whether or not it could affect future cases.
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