Black History Month events on Staten Island: From book clubs to panel discussions and performing arts
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Black History Month may look a little different this year.
Organizations have adapted their Black History Month events this February to be virtual so you can still celebrate black history, achievement, and culture while social distancing.
From book clubs to panel discussions and performing arts, they’ve got it all! Below are some of the Staten Island based Black History Month events taking place this month.
To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and Presumed Guilty…Is it us? Or is it just us?
Mabre Stahly-Butts, a City Council appointee to the independent police oversight board, said the matrix setting out the penalties is “meaningless” and said the board “was swallowing and being hand-fed a policy from the NYPD.”
Jan. 29, 2021 1:06 pm
Whoever runs this troll account against Governor Andrew Cuomo should win an award for this tweet. They took the threat made against Trump’s cabinet members by Maxine Waters back in 2018 and slightly altered it to apply to Cuomo’s administration in New York. They did this after the news broke yesterday that his administration covered up the tons of COVID deaths in nursing homes:
“If you see anybody from the Cuomo Administration in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” -Maxine CuomoWatch@melissadderosapic.twitter.com/VbeTf7Rl7R
Dozens of Democrats, many of them state lawmakers, denounced the comments as igniting tensions in the wake of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Mr. Cuomo’s senior adviser, Rich Azzopardi, retweeted many of the critical comments.
The news comes amid mounting criticism against Mr. Cuomo for his handling of the coronavirus, after a scathing report from the state attorney general said the number of nursing home deaths was undercounted by as much as 50%.
This is appalling and dangerous. Encouraging violence must never be tolerated. Shame on whoever is behind this kind of garbage. https://t.co/piPMVEOUWl Carl E. Heastie (@CarlHeastie) January 29, 2021
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
We’ve always known that the left can dish it out, but they can’t take it – and the “Cuomo Watch” Twitter account hilariously made the point Thursday.
As many recall, then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia in June 2018 by co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson – supposedly at the urging of restaurant staff – because said staff and Wilkinson believed Sanders worked for an “inhumane and unethical” administration. Just days prior, then-Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kjirsten Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C.