Say, What??

Rewind, and catch up on what made the headlines this week, in the words of the people who said it best!

"Life is nothing but choices, and you're faced with a lot of choices every day. You have the choice of fear, hate, anger, prejudice... or love, respect, caring and construction."

Dexter Wimberly, curator for the art exhibit Crown Heights Gold on the choices a community has when confronted with hard choices

A Show Worth Its Weight in Gold

“Even though skin color in America no longer determines a child’s fate, sadly, it tells us more about a child’s future than it should.”

--New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the urgency of addressing the disparity between black and Latino youth and their peers

Black and Latino Males Become Focus in City’s New “Young Men’s Initiative”

"There was a vacuum of leadership, and into that vacuum stepped the Tea Party, without any kind of economic theory to back up the solutions that they were offering."

--Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post on the Tea Party’s role in the debt ceiling debate

Debt Ceiling Deal: Unpopular, But Passes in the House of Representatives

“Coward he should have stick around to face the music of what he did to that poor innocent boy over a girl.”

--A reader’s opinion of a man who committed suicide by throwing himself on the tracks of a C Train.

Suicide by C Train at Ralph Avenue

“They are really kicking butt for me. I am so awed by their strength.”

--Margo Lewis, owner of Ms. Dahlia’s café on her staff’s support in light of her pending eviction.

Strapped for Cash, Ms. Dahlia’s Fights Eviction