Mayor Bloomberg’s comment about stop-and-frisk on his weekly radio show sparked major backlash from community leaders and politicians — the outrage stemming from hundreds of thousands of stops each year that result in arrests only about 10% of the time. About 90% of those stopped are minority males. Now Congressman Hakeem Jeffries is calling for […]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg answered his critics on Sunday with a defiant defense of his comments that the New York Police Department doesn't stop minorities often enough based on murder suspect descriptions. “The numbers are the numbers, and the numbers clearly show that the stops are generally proportionate with suspects' descriptions and for years now critics […]

An embattled Mayor Bloomberg stood by his controversial comments on the NYPD’s stop and frisk policy Sunday — and unloaded on his critics. “The numbers don’t lie,” Bloomberg said, defending Friday’s remark that “we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.” His office noted that 87% of people stopped under the policy in […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington, civil and voting rights groups were blunt in describing their reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. “A disaster!” one said. “Grave disappointment,” said another. Chanelle Hardy heads the National Urban League’s Policy Institute. She says the court, by invalidating […]

On Sunday, June 23, 2013, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries discussed pending immigration bills that are under review in the House Judiciary committee and collaboration with the Senate immigration bill on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki.”  He also discussed pending Supreme Court decisions on same-sex  marriage and section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  The full interview […]

On C-SPAN's Washington Journal Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) talked about immigration reform efforts in both the House and Senate as well as the economy, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. He also discussed responded to Robert Mueller’s previous day admission in National Security Agency phone record data collection programs, gun violence, and other […]

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries questioned FBI Director Robert Mueller during a full committee hearing on Oversight on the Federal Bureau of Investigation on June 13, 2013. Click on the image below to listen to the interview Rep. Jeffries had with Steve Scott from WCBS 880 radio in which he discusses the hearing. [[{“fid”:”437″,”view_mode”:”full”,”type”:”media”,”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“height”:”299″,”width”:”221″,”title”:”WCBS”,”class”:”media-element file-full”}}]]

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries was a member of this year’s  House Democrats Baseball Team. He wore a Brooklyn Cyclones uniform in tribute to his hometown Brooklyn, NY. Please click on the image below to watch a video posted by the Washington Post: [[{“fid”:”436″,”view_mode”:”full”,”type”:”media”,”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“height”:”509″,”width”:”801″,”style”:”width: 801px; height: 509px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 2px;”,”title”:”TPM – HJ 6.13.13″,”class”:”media-element file-full”}}]]

It’s been an intense but productive adjustment to the House for the New York City congressman. Remember ninth grade? You had to navigate an unfamiliar campus, find your locker, join a few clubs and make nice with the upperclassmen. Well, that’s a reasonable facsimile of what the first month of 2013 was like for 42-year-old Hakeem […]

WASHINGTON – A little-noticed amendment from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is winning support from the NAACP and other civil rights groups that have been cool to the underlying immigration reform bill. The civil rights groups have worried the Senate immigration bill would make it tougher for people from Africa and the Caribbean to immigrate to […]