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...Police received a report of a man in the Yard soliciting students. HUPD stopped him and a check showed an outstanding warrant. Nathaniel Day, 19, of New Bedford, was placed under arrest...
...looks like a typical high school classroom, but the question Ronald Quartimon poses to his African-American students at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach, an alternative high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., isn't about the Civil War or Shakespeare's sonnets. He wants to know how many of them have ever been stopped by the police. Six hands shoot up. "Usually," says a student, "they just come out right off the bat and ask you, 'Do you have any drugs?'" The comment is a typical one for the 10-session course called Conflicts with Cops, run by the Harlem-based Neighborhood Defender...
...tall," he says. "I get kind of nervous that every time I reach for my ID, there's a possibility that I might die." And in minority neighborhoods across the U.S., there's a good deal of ingrained suspicion. Says Ebony Garcia Williams, 17, a junior at Bedford Stuyvesant Outreach: "Little kids from five and six years old learn to hate the cops because they see what goes on in the community." No matter how many parental lectures are given or workshops held, it will take a long time to overcome attitudes like that...
Before Lowell House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin, there was the Duchess of Bedford...
Boston-Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.) to Buffalo-Niagra Falls...