Hempstead

Hempstead Freedom Walkers Challenge Long Island Segregation

Alan Singer | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Hofstra University, Long Island, Civil Rights Movement, Segregation, Garden City, Civil Rights, Freedom Riders, Hempstead, New York News

Eighth-grade students in Hempstead, New York organized a Freedom Walk to honor the 1961 Freedom Riders and to make a statement that racial integration and equality should still be valued by our society today.

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Disproportionate Share of Turnaround Money Headed to High Schools

Sarah Garland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: High Schools, Justin Cohen, Portland Oregon, Turnaround, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, New York, Locke High School, Hempstead, The Hechinger Report, Education, Turnaround-Grants, Sarah Garland, Education Reform, Politics News

U.S. Department of Education is handing out $3.5 billion in grants to failing schools around the country. But when it comes to turning around high schools, educators admit that no one knows exactly what works.

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Defining Democracy

Rana F. Sweis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Jordan, Elections, Amman-Jordan, Politics, Democracy, Parliament, Education, Middle East, Hempstead, Honor Killing, Eduction-Reform, New York, Culture, World News

The fifth Parliamentary elections will be held in Jordan this November. It is difficult to see signs of true reform in this year's elections and I hope that Jordanians will look beyond the banners that dress the city.

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Female Corrections Officer Arrested In Long Island Shooting Spree

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kim Wolfe, Long Island, Stacie Williams, Crime, Shooting Spree, Nassau University Medical Center, Nassau County, Hempstead, New York, Video, New York News

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP)-- Three people were shot, two of them fatally, during a shooting spree early Wednesday morning, and a corrections officer related...

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Paterson Launches Election Bid On Long Island

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paterson Hempstead, Governor's Race, Andrew Cuomo, Governor Paterson, David Paterson, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Hempstead Long Island, Paterson Long Island, New York 2010, New York News

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — David Paterson launched his campaign for a full four-year term as governor Saturday with a combative campaign speech that mock...

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Paterson Launches Governor Bid In Long Island Hometown

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Long Island, Governor David Paterson, Long Island New York, David Paterson, Hofstra University, Hempstead Long Island, New York, New York City, Hempstead, New York News

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Weeks after becoming the state's first black governor, David Paterson made a triumphant return to his childhood alma mater, He...

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Shoebox Baby's Mom Arrested

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safe Haven Laws, Xiomara Gamez, Long Island, Long Island New York, Baby Girl Shoebox, Hempstead Long Island, New York, Baby Shoebox, Hempstead, New York News

HEMPSTEAD, Long Island (AP) -- Police on Long Island have arrested the mother of a newborn found abandoned in a shoebox in the lobby of a Long island ...

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An Anti-Kennedy Coalition: Radio Ranters and Intellectuals

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Ellen Alderman, Otis Pike, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph P. Kennedy, Hempstead, Greenwich Village, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Harvard, Eugene McCarthy, Ronald Reagan. Adlai StevensonRobert Kennedy, Ed McCormack, James Buckley, Kenneth Keating Sam Stratton, Alfonse D'Amato, Caroline Kennedy Senate Seat, Caroline Kennedy Senate, David Paterson Caroline Kennedy, David Paterson, Roosevelts, Adamses, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Senate Seat, Politics News

The Empire State is a triumvirate uniting the House of Clinton, the House of Cuomo and the House of Paterson. Would reviving the Kennedy dynasty disturb this delicate ecological balance?

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Presidential Debate Protesters Charged by Mounted Police; Iraq Veterans Injured, Arrested

Off The Bus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hofstra Arrests, Hoffstra Protest, Hofstra University, Hofstra Police, Debate Protests Hofstra, Hempstead Police, Final Debate, Hempstead, Hofstra Debate, Home News

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Pandemonium erupted outside Hofstra University tonight at around 8pm, an hour before the final presidential debate of the 2008 camp...

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Outside Debate, Hempstead Struggles (VIDEO)

ANP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Barack Obama, Economy, George Bush, Wall Street Crisis, Iraq, Presidential Debates, John McCain, Hempstead, Poverty, Politics News

Today a horde of journalists descends on Hempstead, NY, to cover the third and final presidential debate. But ANP left the pack to hear from people ou...

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