Jimmy Breslin

We Will Fight For The Oppressed As Jimmy Breslin Did

... to be silent," she said. With regard to identifying with immigrants now targeted by Trump and very much on the news radar screen, Congresswoman Clarke made striking remarks on Saturday about the historic bonds between Islam and African people. She said that African-Americans, whether they have roots in the American South or the Caribbean, are Africans with a connection to Islam in their lineage. Stand with Muslims under fire today, she said. As for the late Jimmy Breslin and how he fits into this: I, an African-American whose ancestors came to America from the English-speaking Caribbean, was the one who gave Jimmy the family contact information for Eduardo Gutierrez. Gutierrez was a Mexican immigrant who died in a construction accident and became the subject of Breslin's book "The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez.". I had once taken on the coverage of Mexican day laborers as a passion and still feel a strong connection to their countries, when I lived for a time in the early 1980 s with my family. Together we will make it. We will fight, on paper or on the stage, for those in society being abused. And we will try our best to make all their voices ...

Confederate Flag Flies Next To Ncaa Arena In South Carolina

... incredible people (who are) about moving forward," he said. "But it's America. We have freedoms. People have freedoms to do whatever they want to do with themselves and their property.". Sunday's games featured North Carolina against Arkansas and Duke against South Carolina. South Carolina was unable to host NCAA predetermined championships because of the organization's ban, which began in 2001. The NCAA regional in 2002 was allowed to remain in the state. That led the NAACP and others to turn out for a march to the arena steps in support of taking down the flag. The issue was settled in 2015 after the massacre of nine black Charleston church goers by Dylann Roof, who was seen in pictures with the Confederate flag. State lawmakers voted to remove the flag in July 2015 and the NCAA lifted its sanctions. Roof was convicted of multiple murder counts and sentenced to death. Hunter Meadows of Blue Ridge said the protesters did not think it fair that all Confederate flag supporters were blamed ...

Pulitzer-winning New York Columnist Jimmy Breslin Dies At 88

... and Mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani. His works also took on organised crime and he upset Mafia boss Joey Gallo so badly that Gallo reportedly planned to kidnap some of Breslin's children. Another mobster beat up Breslin outside a restaurant in 1970 because of something he had written. Breslin took breaks from his column to write books such as "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game" about the hapless 1962 New York Mets baseball team; "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight," a novel about gangsters as hapless as the Mets; and "World Without End, Amen," the tale of an alcoholic policeman who goes to Northern Ireland. He gave up regular column writing in 2004 when he resigned from Newsday, saying he wanted to concentrate on books. Breslin's career also included a whimsical 1969 run for the New York City Council alongside author Norman Mailer who ran for mayor, as well as a beer commercial and a short-lived late-night television talk show in 1986. While Breslin came off as a street-wise everyman who was not even sure he graduated from high school, a former editor said it was a facade ...

Not Even Death Could Silence Jimmy Breslin's Titanic Voice

... far Koch has worked incessantly at knowing nothing. Around him the level of stealing rose. Not clever or crafty corruption, but brazen stealing by stumblebums.". A Pulitzer Prize also came that year, 1986. There was the Jimmy Breslin who, assigned by the Herald Tribune to cover John F. Kennedy's funeral, made a beeline for the graveyard to interview the men digging out the President's final resting place, because, he showed, we learn most about the powerful among us from the vantage of the least. LUPICA: Jimmy Breslin, old-school genius and voice of New York. There was the Jimmy Breslin who was the chosen confidant of the elusive Son of Sam , aka the.44 Caliber Killer, who wrote to "J. B." care of the Daily News: "I read your column daily and find it quite informative," adding ominously: "Sam's a thirsty lad and he won't let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood.". Live from New York. (Erwitt, Misha). To which Breslin replied: "The only way for the killer to leave this special torment is to give himself up to me," adding: "The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.". Into the vortex Breslin plunged ...

Chuck Berry And Jimmy Breslin Reinvented The English Language

... it to us in journalism school, which was not an institution for which, truth be told, Breslin himself had any respect. He saw more than other columnists did. He heard things in a different way. But there was more to him than the larger than life presence. There even was more to him than the newspaper columns and the magazine pieces. Jimmy Breslin was a genuinely great writer. World Without End, Amen is a terrific novel. I'd Like To Thank My Brain For Remembering Me, his book about his recovery from a brain aneurysm, is closely reported as well as being moving and, in parts, completely hilarious. And his Watergate book, How The Good Guys Finally Won, an account of the downfall of Richard Nixon as seen from the office of then-Speaker Tip O'Neill, is one of the most underrated studies of those events, and certainly the most entertaining, but with gleaming edge to it ...

Louisiana Sheriff's Deputy Shot, Killed While On-duty

... Authorities say a small wildfire burning in the mountains just outside the Colorado city of Boulder has forced people from their homes and is filling the sky with smoke. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 3:25 PM EDT 2017-03-19 19:25:44 GMT. In 2002, Associated Press National Writer Jerry Schwartz sat down with New York's "New Yorkiest" author and columnist Jimmy Breslin to talk about his life, work and New York. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 2:58 PM EDT 2017-03-19 18:58:54 GMT. Authorities say a sheriff's deputy in Louisiana is dead after being shot near a movie theater during the course of an investigation. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 2:15 PM EDT 2017-03-19 18:15:51 GMT. Chuck Berry leaves behind not only a core of rock classics such as "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven," but countless descendants in songs clearly indebted to him in sound and in spirit. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 12:35 PM EDT 2017-03-19 16:35:43 GMT. __link__ is ...

Legendary Newspaper Columnist Jimmy Breslin Dies At 88

... between John Kerry and George W. Bush, that he would stop writing them and end his newspaper career. But he wasn't done writing. Breslin's mafia tale, The Good Rat, came out in 2008. Instead of a gravedigger, the book's star, Burk Kaplan, had gotten involved with the mafia and gone to jail, but then found himself as a witness in a trial against two New York detectives who were indicted for acting as mafia hit men. "Gangsters in the Mafia that are known, there's nothing about them but crime. Kaplan committed more crimes, but he did it in a suit," Breslin told NPR's Michel Martin in 2008. "He looked like he had the demeanor of somebody in the garment center, and he put together more crimes than they were able to think of, the gangsters. It was tremendous.". Throughout all his work, Breslin never ...

Iraqi Troops Push Into Area Around Symbolic Mosul Mosque

... PM EDT 2017-03-19 19:25:44 GMT. In 2002, Associated Press National Writer Jerry Schwartz sat down with New York's "New Yorkiest" author and columnist Jimmy Breslin to talk about his life, work and New York. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 2:58 PM EDT 2017-03-19 18:58:54 GMT. Authorities say a sheriff's deputy in Louisiana is dead after being shot near a movie theater during the course of an investigation. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 2:15 PM EDT 2017-03-19 18:15:51 GMT. Chuck Berry leaves behind not only a core of rock classics such as "Johnny B. Goode" and "Roll Over Beethoven," but countless descendants in songs clearly indebted to him in sound and in spirit. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 12:35 PM EDT 2017-03-19 16:35:43 GMT. __link__ is taking a leap into the Trump resistance. More > >. Sunday, March 19 2017 9:25 AM EDT ...

Jimmy Breslin's Mission Was Exposing Injustice

... years, the epitome of a New Yorker. He did a commercial for Piels Beer in 1969 or something, where he was in a bar, and he had on a tie and he said, “Beer is beer” or something like that. But he was a quintessential New Yorker. He was irascible, tough, but he was an authentic voice for New York. He was the people’s voice. I think we are losing that more and more in journalism, frankly, where when you read a Jimmy Breslin column, you knew who he was and what his values were and if there was a Jimmy Breslin column, those were his words and his thoughts and no editor was going to change what he said or what he wrote. If an editor did try to change what he said or what he wrote, it would have been a very short conversation. So he brought an authenticity to journalism. He brought a perspective to journalism. He gave people comfort because they knew Jimmy Breslin was on the case. I would be with him in public on occasion, and he would get a great response from people – people would come up to him and say, “You go get him, Jim. You tell it like it is, Jim." That’s who he was and I think that’s one of the reasons people had confidence in the overall system. I lost my father two ...