Stop-and-frisk is the long endured practice whereby police officers in New York City have stopped and questioned hundreds of thousands of pedestrians, particularly African-Americans and Latinos;The program functions as sanctioned racial profiling and permitted discrimination.
Have you been watching "Orange is the New Black" lately? Have you been watching "Orange is the New Black" lately? If not you sign into your Netflix account and get binging.
Valentine's Day is the most romantic day of the year. Valentine's Day is the most romantic day of the year. However, the annual February 14 holiday is also big business for chocolatiers, restaurants, and jewelry stores.
Make your Valentine dinner one you both will never forget. With these easy but world class recipes, your partner might want to dine in from here on out.
Kylie Jenner has been seen spending time with Xavier Smith aka Lil Za who is known for his arrest at the home of Justin Beiber for possession of illegal substances.
This year's winter in NYC is quite painful to deal with, especially when fashionable New Yorkers find themselves inevitably being forced to compromise to its extreme, cold weather. However, the snow and winds can't threaten us anymore - check out these affordable, practical tricks to stay warm and be stylish, simultaneously.
Did you ever dream of being a famous watercolor artist like Georgia O'Keeffe, who used watercolor as a way to explore intense colors and light she witnessed after moving to rural New Mexico? Or Edward Hopper, who captured the American experience with "subtler qualities of light," or even Vincent van Gogh, who produced 150 watercolors during his life?
The Latino population is abundant. The group now outnumbers the longstanding Caucasian majority, and Latinos can take credit for 19% of 16- to 24 year olds in the United States. To reach this demographic, marketers have even gone as far as to feign authenticity, by branding products “Latino.”
Imagine you are an architect or an engineer and you were given the monumental task to create a modern building of worship for a celestial client such as God?Well the idea of exploring "religious architecture" and how it has evolved into today's modern landscape, was a concept that editors Lukas Feireiss and Robert Klanten explored in their book "Closer to God: Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces."
As far as winters go, this is definitely one of the worst on record, and the trend continued with Winter Storm Nika, a storm which left thousands in Pennsylvania without power and forced a state of emergency to be declared in New York.
Jeopardy! contestant Arthur Chu has received criticism from the shows' fans for his controversial game-winning strategy. The contestant, however, says he is just a clever Google navigator trying to support his family.
The scandals surrounding the prevalence of sex abuse in the Catholic Church have reached international proportions: the United Nations has slammed the Catholic Church -- and, specifically, the Vatican -- for its role in the cover-up of the sex abuse, and has called for the Holy See to remove all pedophiles from its rank and file.
There are a number of threats to the Sochi Games to begin on Friday. American authorities have warned Russian officials of the possible "toothpaste bombs."
Sandwich restaurant chain Subway is removing a special ingredient from its bread that can also be found in synthetic leather, shoes rubber and yoga mats.
Dimly lit basements with buddies crowded around television screens and bosky public parks where friends are congregated around peeling picnic tables are the imagined settings for teenagers who engage in drug use and abuse. Though, the reality is that teens participate in drug use any and everywhere -and Latino teens are leading the trend
