women achieve that. niccole, are you in the land of presentation of images. right. and by the way streetcar, extraordinary. anyone who comes anywhere new york should come see you in that play. is this just working out our owe emotions or something meaningful about as african-american women, are trying to think through our self-presentations? i think there are so many angles to analyze it, and that movie good hair, i think tracy thoms, a fellow actress, she said it best, very simply, it s amazing that it s considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head. and i never forgot that, this is just the way it grows out of my head. this is the beginning. this is my is ness. just how it is. for me, i can also consider that, but i also my hair
in syria, at least 35 people killed in the last 24 hours by the syrian army. in the province of homs, nine people today alone were killed according to opposition activists. meantime, the syrian national council has elected a kurdish di disside dissident as its new leader and spain has agreed to take a $125 billion bailout. the deterioration of its banks was threatening to bankrupt spain s government. the top story of the morning. a blatt tent disregard for civil liberties, happening in new york city. for young men of color around the country, something not so funny happens on wait to school, work, and walking down the street minding their own business. what happens to them is conducted by the very people who are sworn to protect the community. i m referring to top and frisk. in 2011, new york city police stopped 685,724, a 600% increase since 2002. the first year of michael bloomberg s tenure as mayor of new york city. during his ten-year tenure in office, the number is 10.
since 2002. the first year of michael bloomberg s tenure as mayor of new york city. during his ten-year tenure in office, the number is 10.4 million. what was the number one reason? furtive movements which accounted for more than 50% of the stops. furtive, fly, shifty, sort of how trayvon martin was acting on the night he was shot and killed? make no mistake there, is a definite racial component of those stops, 52.9% were black. 33.7% were latino, 9.3% were white. the numbers flip when looking at the city s overall population. only 25.5% of the population is black, and 26.8% are latino and 44% are white. how successful was the nypd last year? more than 600,000 people were innocent according to a recent report by the new york civil liberties union. you might be thinking to yourself, well, that s something i just don t have to worry about. i mean, let me just suggest this. you may not be young, or black, or a man or living in the city, but you should care. stop and frisk polici