By Bernice Elizabeth GreenVickie and Freedom, a couple in their early 60’s, just celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary on May 4th.And the best gift they could...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeFinding a home to rent can be something of a physical and emotional obstacle course. Community-minded landlords have a business ethic that supports local...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeBrooklynites are wrestling with a housing dilemma. Not just the severe lack of affordable housing, and the growing ‘unhoused’ population, but also “ethnic cleansing,”...
By Mary Alice MillerAnother day, another crisis at the New York City Housing Authority.The federal monitor appointed to oversee NYCHA issued a final 100-page report excoriating...
Report: Half of NYC families lack enough income to survive without assistance NEW YORK (WABC) — A new report from the United Way of New York...
April 9, 2025Announcement Builds on Mayor Adams’ Record of Investments in New York City Public Schools, Including Additional Funds for...
Cooperative, Collective, Collaboration By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeA self-proclaimed “inter-personal individual,” Brooklyn native Marcelle Lashley-Kaboré has a Global Majority perspective with her...
by Yvette MooreNew York City schools were not racially segregated by law as in the South, but they were in...
Evolution of Black Studies Into New York City K-12 Curriculum By Mary Alice MillerNew York City implemented a citywide K-12...
By Fern GillespieKamala Harris didn’t win the presidency. However, she made history again as the first Black and Asian woman...
It’s in the books:The movement for a Black Studies curriculum in New York City schools has its roots in the...
by Binta VannLike many Bedford-Stuyvesant natives whose roots run deep in this community, I am the product of District 16...
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that New York and a coalition of 11...
People & Politics, Poetry & Jazz NEW YORK. April 5, 2025: Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, center, joined the thousands who...
AG James Has Secured More Than $10 Million From Transportation Companies, Won Criminal Convictions of 11 Individuals NEW YORK –...
Vice President Kamala Harris’ positive messages this month encouraging the next generation of leaders to “stay in the fight” echoed...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbatts Following George Zinnermans killing of Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, Black Lives Matter began...