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2005 Stories by Aina Hunter

• Busted for Blackness at Middlebury

  published May 24, 2005

  Supporters of 21-year-old O'Neil Walker label his predicament a disgraceful case of racial profiling. Just before graduation this spring from... More >>

• Simmons vs. Foxman

  published May 17, 2005

  A huge party planned for the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March in D.C. is still months away, yet Russell Simmons and Abe Foxman have been... More >>

• School for Johns

  published May 3, 2005

  "When I was in the lifestyle, I didn't care anything about all you," begins Rosetta Menifee, a blonde woman in her late forties wearing glasses... More >>

• Juvenile Injustices

  published April 26, 2005

  Assistant Corporation Counsel Jessica Latour paces back and forth in Kings County Family Court judge Mary O'Donoghue's courtroom, staring down at... More >>

• Security on the Domestic Front

  published April 19, 2005

  It's easy for employers to get away with mistreating domestic workers—the problem is rooted in basic labor laws. Whether she's from... More >>

• A New Co-opt on the West Side

  published March 29, 2005

  Al Sharpton, part of the contingent of African-American Democrats crossing party lines in noisy support of the New York Jets' West Side stadium... More >>

• Stansbury Killer Gets Cop Union Post

  published March 22, 2005

  Richard Neri, the Brooklyn cop who shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury on the roof of a Bed-Stuy apartment building last winter, has... More >>

• Cop Who Killed Stansbury Gets Union Post

  published March 15, 2005

  Richard Neri, the Brooklyn cop who shot and killed 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury on the roof of a Bed-Stuy apartment building last winter, has... More >>

• Cops Talk Dirty to Young Girls

  published March 8, 2005

  In Judge Mary O'Donoghue's courtroom in King's County Family Court in Brooklyn, 16-year-old "Krystal Simmons," with round cheeks, glasses, and a... More >>

• Pharm Aid

  published February 22, 2005

  Latin American environmentalists are criticizing our food aid again after a genetically altered type of corn banned for health reasons was found... More >>

• The Drug to End All Drugs

  published February 15, 2005

  If all goes according to plan, a select group of cocaine addicts could be lining up in Miami this April for a chance to get quickly and... More >>

• Too Hot for the Homeland

  published February 8, 2005

  The nearly 300 volcano victims who fled the microscopic Caribbean island of More >>

• Asthma Goes Rural, Thanks to Amnesty for Polluters

  published February 1, 2005

  Under a new plan by the Bush administration, more rural youngsters in New York and elsewhere will reap the heart and lung benefits ghetto youth... More >>