Features
1-800-Mattress.com Founder Thinks Outside the Box Spring
June 25, 2008
Napoleón Barragán, the founder, owner and CEO of 1-800-Mattress.com, believes in thinking outside the box. In the late 1980s, Barragán approached radio talk show host Howard Stern about advertising on his radio program.
On a...
City Lawyers Set To Rally for Their Pakistani Counterparts
November 14, 2007
November 13, 2007
Lawyers from firms across the city will stop billing clients for half an hour today to rally in support of the lawyers and judges of Pakistan.
The rally, planned for 1 p.m. in front of the New York County Courthouse at 60 Centre...
U.S. Attorneys Rally in Support of Pakistani Brethren
November 14, 2007
November 14, 2007
The steps of the New York County Courthouse in downtown Manhattan were a sea of black and white Tuesday as hundreds of New York City attorneys gathered in support of their counterparts in Pakistan, thousands of whom have been...
Walter Monheit: The Oldest Club Kid
November 12, 2007
July 23-25, 2004
On the New York City nightclub scene, Walter Monheit is a fixture, an icon even.
Since the days of ballroom dancing clubs in the 1950’s, this now-78-year-old man has been clubbing two to three nights per week from around...
Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics
June 15, 2007
Special to the Sun
June 15, 2007
A lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government claims there is a double standard by which Muslim clerics are criticized for not condemning Islamist terrorism when “rabbis are...
Recruited To Die
June 1, 2007
June 1, 2007
In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo...
Helping Mexican Immigrants Find Dignity — and a Better Life
March 3, 2007
March 3, 2007
Joel Magallan
Former Brother Joel Magallan has headed the Association Tepeyac for 11 years.
“Our Lady of Guadalupe is an icon of dignity,” says Joel Magallán, the head of the Asociación Tepeyac de New York,...
‘It Was Skin and Bones’: Soldiers Remember Auschwitz
January 17, 2007
January 17, 2007
When they were young, they fought the Nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable.
Now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the Allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of...
Marching For Freedom: Ex-slave Simon Deng Plans New Walk to Spotlight Sudan’s Plight
August 31, 2006
August 31, 2006
It was “desperation” to raise awareness about the plight of black Africans in his native land of Sudan, Simon Deng says, that prompted the Harlem resident to walk the 300 miles from the United Nations to...
Rising to the Occasion
May 17, 2006
“When you rise to the occasion, there’s no ‘just getting by,’” says Thabiti Boone of his efforts to be a strong black male role model to inner city children. “My best is connected to my family, my future, my community, and...