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The Lehman College Lady Lightning basketball team is out to prove that its impressive performance was no fluke.

The Bronx has one of the highest asthma hospitalization rates in the country. According to a Lehman College Geographic Information Sciences research team, there is a definite link between asthma hospitalization and air pollution in the Bronx.

Plus de 5.500 soldats américains ont fuit l’Irak depuis le début de la guerre, soit 11% des forces armées. D'après le Pentagone, ces militaires seraient entre 200 et 1.000 à avoir cherché refuge au Canada.

Authorities use race, religion, and accents to identify possible criminals. A growing number of Americans say they've been profiled.

African-Americans do it in February. Latinos do it in September and October. Asians do it in May. So, when do women celebrate their history and heritage?

Historically, Accra was founded in the 1500’s by the Ga people who had immigrated from Ille-ife, a town located in modern-day Nigeria. The word “Accra” was derived from an Ashanti word,“nkran,” which literally means ants, in reference to the numerous anthills located in the surrounding countryside

It’s a place built on the idea that people deserve a second chance, a Bronx spot for potential losers to become winners, a school for dropouts to drop back in.

For Herminio Martinez, it all goes back to his youth. Helping young people pursue an education is his way of repaying the favor he received when he was a 14-year-old Cuban refugee struggling to learn the English language and enroll in a public New York middle school.

MIGUEL PÉREZ : COVERING ALL BASES Award-Winning Journalist Goes to Bat as Educator In the Shadow of Yankee Stadium by ULISES GONZALES Bronx Journal Staff Writer Originally published December 2006  When Miguel Pérez was a boy, romping around the Cuban countryside, he always wore a New York Yankees baseball cap. At the age of 10, in his hometown of La Salud, in the province of La Habana, Pérez wanted to

by Mara Palermo Bronx Journal Staff Writer Originally published December 2006 La vittoria dei democratici nelle elezioni del sette novembre è il trionfo di Nancy Pelosi, la deputata italo-americana che diventa la prima donna Speaker della House of Representatives. Per la donna e per la rappresentante politica, i circa di 26 milioni di italo-americani applaudono la storica ascesa di Nancy Pelosi quale