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The NYPD is hunting a group of young men who were filmed throwing a pole through a Brooklyn synagogue on Saturday as Sabbath services took place inside. The group was caught on surveillance cameras hovering around the synagogue in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood on Saturday. There were six boys in the group. Some wore black hoodies and some wore orange sweatshirts.

Police released photos of two teens they believe drew swastikas on a Brooklyn Heights block the night before Halloween. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS -- Police have identified two suspects who allegedly drew swastikas and other hate messages on a quiet Brooklyn Height block the night before Halloween. Two men scrawled their hate-filled messages on a garage door and several homes on Garden Place between Joralemon and State streets at about 9:35 p.m. on Oct. 30, police said. Police released photos of two approximately 18-year-old suspects on Saturday. This act of vandalism was just one of several anti-semitic acts to occur in Brooklyn...

An activist group has launched a voter registration effort aimed at black voters at screenings of the “Black Panther” movie nationwide. Members of the Electoral Justice Project, an offshoot of the Movement for Black Lives, are seeking to “mobilize the black electorate” and increase political engagement with the #WakandaTheVote campaign, the website Blavity reported. Wakanda is the fictional African nation featured in the long-anticipated Marvel film “Black Panther.” Kayla Reed, Jessica Byrd and Rukia Lumumba founded the Electoral Justice Project last year, and told Blavity that the movement has been effective “because we meet our communities where they are,...

Micah Xavier Johnson, who killed five police officers in Dallas, was increasingly drawn to black nationalist ideology and attended several meetings of the People’s New Black Panther Party. Gavin Eugene Long, who killed three officers in Baton Rouge, said he belonged to the Washitaw Nation, an obscure black nationalist group that claims ownership to the huge swath of the United States obtained in the Louisiana Purchase on the belief that they are descended from a U.S. indigenous group.

Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city's grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources. ...and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate. Chicago is national center of black nationalist thought and organization. Chicago is home base for African-American Muslim organizations. Muslims have been visible forces for...

MOUNT HOLLY - The Burlington County Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed that Maple Shade resident John J. Gilbride died Friday as a result of a gunshot wound to the head. Dr. Daksha R. Shah, assistant medical examiner for the county, released the autopsy findings yesterday. County prosecutors, who said the victim was wounded in the head and chest, would not reveal how many times Gilbride was shot early Friday morning outside his Maple Shade apartment as he arrived home from work. The US Airways baggage agent was engaged in a bitter custody battle for his son with the boy's mother,...

News Posted on Sat, Sep. 28, 2002 Man in MOVE dispute gunned down in N.J.By Joseph A. Gambardello, Sam Wood and Elisa UngInquirer Staff Writers John J. Gilbride Jr., was found shot to death in his car. The father at the center of an acrimonious custody battle with the radical group MOVE was found shot to death, execution-style, early yesterday in his car outside his Maple Shade apartment.Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi said investigators were pursuing some leads in the killing of John J. Gilbride Jr., 34, but would not elaborate. He said no one had been "ruled...

<p>WASHINGTON — Participants in this month's Congressional Black Caucus conference say the defeat of two black House members in bitter primaries not only suggests a widening rift with Jewish Democrats, but trouble within the Democratic Party itself.</p> <p>"People were talking retaliation," said Ron Walters, the director of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, of last week's CBC events in Washington. "They were saying [presidential hopeful] Sen. Joe Lieberman is dead in the water, and so on and so forth."</p>