The Brooklyn Paper has posted articles and podcasts of its separate interviews with veteran 10th Congressional District Rep. Edolphus Towns and challenger Kevin Powell.
At about 29:00 of the interview, Powell begins to criticize Towns on a number...
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The last few re-election races have not been particularly easy ones for Representative Edolphus Towns, a 13-term incumbent from central Brooklyn. In fact, in the last election, in 2006, Mr. Towns won the primary with less than 50 percent of the vote...
Perhaps I’m dating myself, but do you remember the first season of “Real World” on MTV?
Kevin Powell was the poetry-writing community organizer that was (fairly or unfairly, I’m not sure) portrayed as the “angry young black man” on that season. Now...
Background
Edolphus "Ed" Towns (born July 21, 1934) is an American politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 10th District of New York (map) based in Brooklyn, and including such communities such as Fort Greene, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Mill Basin, Cypress Hills, East New York, and Canarsie. A Democrat, he has served in the House since 1983.
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