View From Here David Mark Greaves With Ranked Choice Voting, if your first choice is eliminated, your vote moves to your second choice and so on down. Previously there would be a fear of “wasting” votes on a candidate with no apparent chance of winning. Or even attracting votes that swing an election. With Ranked Choice Voting, […]readmore

View From HereBy David Mark Greaves Which Way the Inflection?One year after the murder of George Floyd there is a lot of talk of the country being at an inflection point in race relations, and we certainly are. The question is “Which way is the inflection?”On one hand, there is hope that the outpouring of […]readmore

By David Mark GreavesWe see the emotional trauma inflicted on the witnesses to the death of George Floyd in the testimony they are giving in the murder trial of the officer charged with his death, Derek Chauvin. These onlookers were traumatized by having to stand helpless as one of their own, a citizen on the […]readmore

By David Mark GreavesThe mother buried with her child in the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan looks up to us out of a grave carved from a harsher and meaner place, centuries ago. The Weeksville Lady, dressed and mannered for Sunday service, stops for a moment to capture onto tintype, a satisfied confidence, looking […]readmore

View From HereBy David Mark GreavesPresident Biden’s $1.9 billion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is rooted in a bottom-up strategy, where it is the masses of people who get the money and the services they need. This plan with its many parts will reset the nation’s trajectory, concentrating its efforts on the faith and […]readmore

View From Hereby David Mark GreavesBlack History month 2021 should be a celebration of how African Americans has saved this country yet again. What the insurrection in the Capitol has shown, along with their enablers in congress and the ascent of the racist, antisemitic, deranged conspirator Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in the Republican party is […]readmore

Covid, Covid, Covid.In the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, African Americans were at the bottom of the health system’s agenda, and 102 years later, Black and Brown people are still dying at disproportionately high rates and receiving less access to life-saving vaccines.And now, President Biden, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have all acknowledged the historical […]readmore

White privilege and White supremacy clenched their fists and ran amok at the U.S Capital last Wednesday and 5 people died.  Smashing windows, breaking doors, defecating, urinating in the building, threatening to hang Vice President Mike Pence and hunting for Nancy Pelosi and others as they were confirming the results of the presidential election.  While […]readmore