“Never have I had a Thanksgiving come where I have had so little and felt more thankful and blessed.” Rachelle Sanders, on having lost her home in the California wildfire, but surviving with her newborn. After a year of heartache we have come to a troubled Thanksgiving. People recovering from homes flattened by hurricane winds […]Read More
Some New Yorkers celebrating Thanksgiving locally will ride the subway to dinner with relatives and friends. But it’s likely that ride won’t be among the things for which they are thankful. While the state of the transit system over the last few years – constant delays, re-routings, limping buses and byzantine service changes – has […]Read More
Two items – one of interest, one of urgency—were among those discussed at the November 14thmeeting of Community Board No. 2 (CB2). Chaired by Irene Janne, the meeting was held at the lovely and lively Ingersoll Community Center on Myrtle Avenue, where Shirley McCrae, Chairwoman Emeritus, made an appearance. Of interest to many is the […]Read More
THE 2018 USA ELECTIONS African-Americans did not get all of the projected victories on November 6. Two weeks later, we lament the losses of gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abramsin Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida. Those elections were stolen, as is their custom in the South. Has Jim Crow died or is he up and kicking […]Read More
For most people across the nation this week symbolizes Thanksgiving, a time to come together as a family, to eat together, to drink together, to just be together. Family members fly in or drive up from wherever they stay to come back home. They may live in Maryland, or in Virginia, or in Ohio, but […]Read More
Washington, DC — Today, the NAACP and Advancement Project national office joined with the African American Research Collaborative to provide the first comprehensive analysis of how Black voters voted this cycle and why. The new poll of mid-term voters, conducted by the African American Research Collaborative (in collaboration with Latino Decisions and Asian American Decisions), […]Read More
By David Fathi, Director, National Prison Project As firefighters in California battle the deadliest wildfires in the state’s history, they are joined by unlikely allies against the blaze. About 200 prisoners in California’s Conservation Camp program are fighting the fires alongside civilian employees, earning just $1.45 a day for their work. Their pay as workers is a […]Read More
“There has never been a time in the life of the American public school when we have not known all that we needed in order to teach all those whom we chose to teach”—Ronald Edmunds America has a large number of teachers, engineers, medical professionals, artists, artisans, social and scientific researchers, etc. And so, we […]Read More
