Top Consultant to National Politicians Was Prescient about Today’s Economic Crisis A $3 trillion budget was just passed by theHouse. With that much on the table we cannot afford to wait for it. Here is some advice from political wizard Bill Lynch to the community that is still relevant today. Mr. Lynch died in 2013. […]Read More
By Ariama Long ,Kings County Politics U.S. Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn, Queens), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Brendan Boyle (D-PA) and Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), yesterday made their argument in a conference call on why the Republican-led U.S. Senate should pass the Democratic-led House’s $3 trillion HEROES Act – an emergency allocation to […]Read More
By Susan E. RiceContributing Opinion Writer,New York Times In President Trump’s notes used at the March 19 White House news briefing, “Corona” was replaced with “Chinese” in a reference to the coronavirus.There is a long history of American presidential candidates using China as a campaign cudgel — from Bill Clinton blasting President George H.W. Bush […]Read More
Hi, everybody. Congratulations to H.B.C.U. class of 2020. Michelle and I are so proud of you.Graduating from college is a big achievement under any circumstances. And so many of you overcame a lot to get here. You navigated challenging classes, and challenges outside the classroom. Many of you had to stretch to afford tuition. And […]Read More
COVID-19 UPDATES On May 19, COVID-19 stats: More than 1,523,780 Americans have been infected and more than 91,000 Americans have died, out of a population of 330 million. While most of the nation has relaxed its lockdown directives and people are back at the malls, restaurants, and fitness centers, our society is anything but normal. […]Read More
Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance CorpsBattles Coronavirus Pandemic Antoine Robinson, 35, Commanding Officer of Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC) and heir to a legacy, appreciates the rounds of applause nightly at 7pm from New Yorkers who are saluting the first responders during the coronavirus pandemic.“I can’t tell you how much this means to all of us who […]Read More
James Calvin Thompson died May 17, 2020 due to complications involving COVID and kidney failure. At the time of passing he was residing long-term (for Alzheimers) at the Cobble Hill Health Center, Brooklyn, NY, where he received exceptionally kind, compassionate, quality care.Jim, JT, Jimmy, or Mr. T— he answered to all the names — is […]Read More
By Maitefa Angaza NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) residents have suffered a crushing blow from the coronavirus, and the Marcy Houses on Park Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant have suffered more deaths than any other NYCHA development, with 21 to date.Borough President Eric Adams, disgusted by the tragic disparities in the number of cases here, compared […]Read More
