State Senator Bill Perkins

Subway Eating Ban Does Not Have Support Of MTA Chief (POLL)

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: New York City Subway, Subway Food Ban, Ny News, New York Rats, Rats, Rat Czar, Joseph-Lhota, New York News, Mta, State Senator Bill Perkins, Churros, New York News

MTA chief Joseph Lhota does not support State Senator Bill Perkin's bill in Albany to ban eating on the subway--and may not be a fan of the Senator hi...

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Albany Stalemate: NYC Rent Laws Set To Expire Tonight

Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: New York Rent, Albany, Rent Regulation, Gustavo Rivera, New York Real Estate, New York City Rent, Ny News, Sheldon Silver, NY Real Estate, New York News, Dean Skelos, Governor Andrew Cuomo, State Senator Bill Perkins, New York News

New York City rent laws are set to expire at midnight tonight as Democrats in Albany push to strengthen rent regulations and Republicans seek to simpl...

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Saluting the Met's Gay Gala!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leonardo Da Vinci, Harlem, Romaine Brooks, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marcel Duchamp, Richmond Barthe, Michelangelo, State Senator Bill Perkins, Morningside Heights, LGBT Community, Emma Stebbins, David Hockney, El Bario, Washington Heights, Edmonia Lewis, Jasper Johns, Tamara De Lempika, Donna Williams Sutton, Antonio Canova, Arts News
Michael Henry Adams

Few places are as influential as art museums. Filled with revered treasures, they help to define for us notions of beauty and significance that can transform our lives.

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Hot Summer Fun in Harlem

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angela Dews, Sherrie Bronfman, Marie Brown, John T. Reddick, Pamela Green Perkins, Laurent Delly, Sherman Edmondson, Dale Dobson, Patricia P. Eaton, Peggy Sheppard, Cordell Cleare, Joy Wellington, Harlem, Actavist, Beat-the-Heat, Hostess, State Senator Bill Perkins, Chicago, Entertaining, Aisha Sharif, Asake Bomani, Dwight Casimere, Gregory Porter, The Wine Doctor, Bacardi, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Sometimes when the temperature climbs to such an extent that it's impossible to beat the heat, the only alternative is to give in and accept reality. ...

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Visible Lives: Celebrating LGBT Pride 2010

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: E. Lynn Harris, Homo-Harlem, Faggot, Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, Samuel Delaney, Homo-Harlem a Film Retrospective, Jayne Russell, Henry B. Roa, Harlem Pride, Spike Lee, Richard-Bruce-Nugent, State Senator Bill Perkins, Sage Harlem, Trance, Barnes & Noble, Fred Barney Taylor, James Earl Hardy, 1969, Hotel Theresa, Drag Ball, Stanley Bennett Clay, Josephine Baker, Gay Pride, Stonewall, Marlin Riggs, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

What matters sordid wealth or brutish might? Bright day, dark night, Gay or straight, black, brown or white, Tall or short, Blond or brunet, Voluptuo...

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When Talking Oversight of Charters, Leave the Tricks at Home

James Merriman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charter Schools, State Senator Bill Perkins, Bill Perkins, School Reform, Charter School Oversight, Margaret Raymond, Education Reform, School Auditing, New York News
James Merriman

There's been significant ink spillage over a hearing that the foremost critic of charter schools, NYS Senator Bill Perkins, put together last week to supposedly look into how charter schools are regulated.

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News
Michael Henry Adams

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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Tour Time in Harlem!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mount Morris Park, The Victoria Theatre, Thomas Lamb, Small's Paradise, The Cotton Club, Dr. J. Gardner Smith, Uptown, 5 & Diamond, Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Lena Horne, The Savoy Ballroom, The Lafayette Theatre, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Gillian Walker, Albert Maysles, Homo-Harlem a Film Retrospective, Ny State Assemblywoman Maeguerite L. Smith, State Senator Bill Perkins, Tourism, Charter Schools, High-Priced Condominiums, Gentrification, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

New restaurants like the discretely-posh, delicious 5 & Diamond abound in today's Uptown. But the Cotton Club of Lena Horne, the Savoy Ballroom, Lafayette Theatre, Small's Paradise are gone.

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An Abiding Presence of Faith: Protecting Harlem's African Burial Ground and Churches Under Threat, Part I

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reginald Pelham Bolton, Harlem, Law, Church, State Senator José Serrano, American Indians, Native Americans, Savages, Historic Preservation, Colonists, Dutch, Elmendorf Dutch Reformed Church, State Senator Bill Perkins, New York, Worship, Tara Morrison, Public Hearing, Superintendent of the African Burial Ground National Memorial, Slavery, Negro, African Burial Ground, Ephesis Seventh Day Adventist Church, Saint Andrews Episcopal Church, Allen Price, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

What is now the Metropolitan Transit Authority's 126th Street bus depot sits atop a colonial-era burial ground for African slaves and free blacks.

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Protecting the House Where Lena Lived!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Count Basie, Addisleigh Park, Real Estate, Rachel Robinson, State Senator Bill Perkins, 555 Edgcomb Avenue, Jackie Robinson, Max Schmeling, Illinois-Jacquet, Chicago, Schwartz and Gross, Ella Fitzgerald, Father Knows Best, Paul Mercer Ellington, James Brown, Otto Kahn, Queens, Jay Paley, Paul R. Williams, President Barack Obama, Lena Horne, John Marquand, John Cheever, Barack Obama, Rose Morgan, Cottie Williams, John S. Phipps, Roy Campanella, Frank Sinatra, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth, Gail-Lumet-Buckley, Geoffrey Holder, Jessye Norman, Cicely Tyson, Jenny Lumet, Leslie Uggams, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Never again in our history will citizens be forced to live segregated lives, not according to race at any rate. Yet once, not so long ago, this reality was a difficult to oppose matter of course.

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The Meaning of Manslaughter?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Proposition 8, Homo-Harlem a Film Retrospective, Floyd Flake, Brooklyn, Harlem Sage, Bushwick, Harlem Pride, Homoseaxuality, Barack Obama, Collin Powell, State Senator Bill Perkins, First Black President, Queer Black Cinema, Jose and Romel Sucuzhanay, Men of All Colors Together, Gay Rights, Manslaughter, Oppression, Skip Gates, Justice, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

The United States has elected its first black president, and yet our struggle for human dignity and mutual respect is hardly over. In the same electio...

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Black Elegance!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norma Jean Darden, Jill Nelson, Al Sharpton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Pitsburgh Courier, Valerie Jo Bradley, Sherry Bronfman, Evelyn Elizabeth Long Cunningham, Mayor David Dinkens, Willie the Lion Smith, State Senator Bill Perkins, Mercedes Ellington, Lou Willard, Fidel Castro, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Jonathan Capehart, Adurey Smaltz, Winthrop Rockefeller, Vertner Tandy, Dick Parsons, Todd Roulette, Robin Bell Stevens, New York Times, Malcolm X, Nelson Rockefeller, St. Philip's Episcopal Church, E. Stennett, Maya Angelou, Lana Turner, Mollie Moon, Joan Sandler, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Naturally, as the city's oldest, most fashionable African American congregation for two centuries, Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was bound to be 94 year old Mrs. Cunningham's parish.

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Chez Josephine, the World's Best Restaurant!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruce Weber, Claudette Law, My, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jean-Claude Baker, Lynn Whitfield, Cordelle-Cleare, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, State Senator Bill Perkins, World's Best Restaurant, New York, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael MC COLLOM, Leonard-Hanna, Chez-Josephine, Curtis Quentin Phelps, Lou Willard, Dale and Ann Dobson, Astor, Vanderbilt, Edna Ratner, Phyllis Briley, Rocky Baron Boler, Terry Wynn, Eva Tuholka, Josephine Baker, Baryshnikov Jesseye Norman, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

'Is it really all you suggest?' "Certainly it's a 'fun' place, with more than decent food. It's in jolly surroundings, with a zany ambiance, that...

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Deadly Consequences of Being Black?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Sean Bell, Ny Police Department, Michael Bloomberg, Monique Washington, State Senator Bill Perkins, Barack Obama, Rodney King, Boss Tweed, Fire Fighters, Amadou Diallo, Omar Edwads, Abner Louima, Racism, Officer Christopher Ridley, Rudolph Giuliani, Desmond Robinson, Politics News
Michael Henry Adams

If New York's police force includes so many deadly marksmen, couldn't uncharged suspects merely be stopped without being killed? For pointing out an...

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