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February 2018

Hawk Newsome raised his fist in protest at a Bronx courthouse Monday morning, his bellowing voice demanding attention amidst the roar of street traffic at rush hour. As nearby court officers yelled instructions to potential jurors, Newsome struggled to jolt New Yorkers out of their morning commute daze. Newsome, a 41-year-old full-time activist who founded Black Lives Matter of Greater New York in 2016, and three others gathered in front of the Bronx County Hall of Justice to call attention to Hugh Barry, a New York Police Department sergeant on trial for the 2016 murder of Deborah Danner, a 66-year old

As the President delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday night, more than 100 card-carrying Republicans gathered in the Upper East Side at the Metropolitan Republican Club to cheer him on. It was an energy filled night for these Manhattan Republicans, who have waited nearly nine years to listen to one of their own deliver one. But it was also marred by dysfunction, a row that ended with one guest carried out by security in a headlock as others screamed and cursed at one another. Before the speech, many Republicans at the Club expressed optimism about what President