Newsday, August 11, 2010
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Financial troubles can exacerbate abusive tendencies, domestic violence experts said Wednesday.
Money woes often make abusers feel they have lost control and they often turn to drugs, alcohol or physical and emotional abuse to cope, they said.
Newsday, August 11, 2011 7:47 PM
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Olivia Bouler, 12, of Islip, who became the Audubon Society’s fundraising rock star, is interviewed by United Nations Television.
They came to talk about changing the world.
Dozens of young girls attending the International Year of Youth Culmination Celebration at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan gathered Thursday to discuss their passions, such as following their dreams and making a meaningful impact at an early age. (more…)
Newsday, June 6, 2011
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin/ Newsday
Suffolk police have stepped up efforts in Brentwood and Central Islip by adding dozens of extra officers and patrol cars in response to a spate of recent violence, officials said.
The move comes after civic groups, scared that several recent killings in those communities could signal a bloody summer, sent a letter to Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and other local legislators last week.
Newsday, May 31, 2011
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr./ Newsday
For 47 years, Mary Reid has waited for Islip’s town board to represent the growing diversity of the communities it serves.
“We should be able to go to a town board meeting and see someone who looks like us,” said Reid, 74, of Bay Shore, a black woman.
This fall, she will be able to vote for such a candidate.
Photo credit: STEVE PFOST/ Newsday
Newsday, July 19, 2011
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
In 1987, Gerard Stoddard was on the board of the Fire Island Association when he was made chairman of a committee charged with finding a president for the organization.
They searched, but no one volunteered. So Stoddard stepped forward. “Nobody would do it,” he said. “I found it fascinating.”
Larry Smith has been looking for his father’s grave for 40 years.
Smith knows that his father, Reginald William Smith, was buried in 1950 in Section C of the historic, 22.5-acre Woodlawn Cemetery, the final resting place of many prominent African American figures of the late 19th century and most of the 20th. But badly kept records and a lack of maintenance for many years after the cemetery was abandoned in the 1960s have prevented Smith and others from locating their loved ones.
Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy | Lynell Wright, 26, of Brentwood, talks about his three best friends who have all died. (Oct. 21, 2010)
Newsday, November 2, 2010
By YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Lynell Wright walks slowly down Brentwood’s Barber Street, his eyes fixed on the white and brick home where he and his three best friends spent much of their free time during childhood. When he closes his eyes, he can still see the four of them running around the block.
But the sweet memories fade quickly when Wright, 26, opens his eyes. His three friends – Arthur “Tugga” Ward, Genis “Pras” Walker, and Alexander “Aaron” Moore – are all dead.
Posting Comments and Breakups on Networking Websites has Become College Students’ Digital Equivalent of Promise Rings and Pinning
The Miami Herald, July 6, 2007
BY: YAMICHE ALCINDOR
First pins, then promise rings. Now students post their relationships on social networking sites to make it official.
Stephanie Tershakovec, 20, an upcoming senior at the University of Miami, has been dating Daniel Mullane for more than two years — you can find them on Facebook.com, with Tershakovec’s and Mullane’s profiles linked to one another.
The Washington Post, May 17, 2009
BY: YAMICHE ALCINDOR
Seas of caps and gowns. Eagerly turned tassels. Crowds of proud families. And an economic recession that has many graduates from the area’s universities still searching for a job, feeling anxious and vulnerable about the future.
Student strategies have ranged from tirelessly sending out dozens of résumés to waiting out the storm in graduate schools. Some say they are lucky to find an extended internship.
New York Times Student Journalism Institute, May 26, 2009
By Yamiche Alcindor
Moments before graduation last week, a teary-eyed Rochelle Smothers said she could not help but think about her hurricane-ravaged home and the moments she had shared with her brother, her best friend.
Four years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Lower Ninth Ward, where she lived, and two years after her 19-year-old brother was fatally shot, Smothers readied herself to file into New Hope Baptist Church in New Orleans. She had finally fulfilled her brother’s last wish: She was graduating as valedictorian; she was not a victim.
Albertha Boone, at home in Southeast Washington, has been going to hospital emergency rooms for primary health care for 20 years. (By Marcus Yam — The Washington Post)
The Washington Post, July 13, 2009
By Yamiche Alcindor
Hospital emergency departments across the region are overflowing with patients who have been battered by the recession and are increasingly using hospitals as their primary source of health care, according to local and national health officials.
Yamiche Alcindor 