Tag Archives: National Action Network

Bill Lynch Senior Associate Heads to National Action Network

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Today, Bill Lynch Associates, LLC (BLA), the premier African-American owned and operated public affairs firm in New York, announced that Senior Associate LaMon Bland will be named National Field Director of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN), one of the country’s leading civil rights organizations.   Continue reading

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Diddy Receives Triumph Award from the NAN

Throughout the years, Harlem bred hip-hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has dabbled in a little bit of everything. Continue reading

UnityFirst: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Examines Voting Rights

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) devoted its National Town Hall meeting to examining Voting Rights and New Age Discrimination. Continue reading

Occupy the Corners in Harlem

To challenge inner-city violence, a community initiative called Occupy the Corners will be launched in New York City tonight, Aug. 17. Continue reading

Silence the Violence Forum At The Harlem Y.M.C.A.

Please join Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, County/District Leader & Honorable Wilma Brown-Phillips, District Leader

The National Action Network Presents

Silence the Violence Forum Continue reading

National HIV Testing Day With C. Virginia Fields in Harlem

As part of the New York City Council HIV/AIDS Faith Based Initiative, the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (NBLCA) joins 23 Manhattan community and faith-based organizations… Continue reading

Salters Scene: Rev. Sharpton Leads Silent Protest

Rev. Sharpton Leads Silent Protest

On Father’s Day the Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network led a silent protest march down 5thAvenue. Continue reading

Harlem Protest Against stop-and-frisks (updated)

Harlem World Magazine asked our interns about “stop-and-frisk” in Harlem, who said “…in May (2012) I was stopped-and-frisked 45 times by the NYPD in Harlem”:

Prominent civil rights leaders joined protesters at a Harlem rally Saturday to voice objections to a police practice that has led to hundreds of thousands of innocent people being stopped and searched by officers. Continue reading

Trayvon Martin — Victim Of Bias & Gun-Toting Vigilantism

I wait for an era when young Black men will no longer have to live in fear. Decades after the abolishment of slavery, we were haunted by the reality of being hunted down, beaten and lynched by both everyday citizens and law enforcement. Continue reading

NYC Police Infiltrate Sharpton’s Organization Says HuffingtonPost

The National Action Network (NAN) on 145th Street in Harlem is considering legal action against the New York Police Department in response to allegations that the department spied on the civil rights group and its leader, Rev. Al Sharpton.

The NYPD allegedly planted a confidential informant in NAN’s Harlem headquarters to report on any large-scale protests planned in response to the acquittal of the officers who massacred Sean Bell, an unarmed Black man whom police riddled with bullets and killed right before his wedding in November 2006, veteran police reporter and author Len Levitt reported on HuffingtonPost.com Feb. 13. Continue reading