Standing for Medgar Evers College Once Again: Part 1 By Maitefa Angaza Medgar Evers College has been here before: students and faculty make charges of disrespect and disenfranchisement, and say that the CUNY chancellor and college president appear unmoved. Stakeholders, the students who rely on MEC, their family and professors, are outraged. Elected officials — […]Read More
NYC CENSUS 2020 LAUNCHES“CENSUS SUBWAY SERIES” AND “NYC COUNTS” CONTEST NYC Census 2020 says it will be a Triple 10 for New York City if we all stand up and be counted. It all involves residents of 10 neighborhoods executing a simple task: answering 10 questions in 10 minutes! Last week, in a strategically creative move, the […]Read More
LaRay Brown, CEO, One Brooklyn Health System, Speaks LaRay Brown is President and CEO of the billion-dollar One Brooklyn Health System, composed of Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, Interfaith Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Ms. Brown was named as one of the most powerful women in New York by Crain’s New York Business […]Read More
Sister Napper-Williams founded Not Another Child, Inc. (N.A.C), after the death of her son Andrell Daron Napper, “the victim of a stray bullet that came from a gun held by a 15-year-old. My son was innocently murdered as he was visiting a family member in the projects, 14 years later I hurt, and the reflections […]Read More
State Attorney General Letitia James addressed the Sisters United Against Gun Violence rally, last Saturday, March 8. Women, mothers and supporters marched from Downtown Brooklyn Borough Hall to Central Brooklyn’s Restoration Plaza urging the community to join them in getting guns off the street and ending gun violence.“We’ve got to take the guns off the […]Read More
With the Potential of NYC losing billions for COVID-19 Relief and Govt RepresentationCentral Brooklyn’s Kathleen Daniel is a leader in the effort to up the Census countNew York City has more than a “lot” to lose, if it can’t hit the numbers. What’s at stake? Billions in federal aid for the critical programs we need, […]Read More
Could communities where viruses and other related illness hit the hardest become centers of production for such products as hand sanitizers and other simply made products we currently import? The demand for hand sanitizers since the beginning of spring has increased hundred-fold.and so have sales of the product. It’s as much a big business as it is a public health necessity. […]Read More
Jeffrey M. Wice,Adjunct Professor and SeniorFellow, New York Law School Even as New Yorkers fight the COVID pandemic, another battle looms—making sure that we’re treated fairly in the 2020 Census.What’s at stake? For starters, billions of dollars in federal aid for health, education, social services and more. The Census will also affect the power of […]Read More
