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

View From HereDavid Mark Greaves A nation in tatters is what we are as we begin 2021. The exiting president leaves a government at war with itself and with the citizenry and the citizenry at war with the government and with itself. People storming government buildings were scenes on television from other countries, not from […]readmore

The View From HereBy David Mark Greaves Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”  And if the last four years have taught us one thing, it is that the arc does not bend on its own. Changing the trajectory of a moral universe is […]readmore

Of the 30 candidates listed as vying for mayor in 2021, by our reckoning, only three can be taken as worthy contenders: Brooklyn BP Eric Adams, Comptroller Scott Stringer and Shaun Donovan, former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Director of the US Office of Management and Budget and Commissioner of the NYC Department […]readmore

View From HereBy David Mark Greaves Biden’s AdministrationAn unintended consequence of the Trump presidency is bringing into focus how important presidential leadership and appointments are. In fulfilling his promise to have an administration reflective of the diversity of the nation, President-elect Joe Biden is surrounding himself with the proverbial “Best and the Brightest” from across […]readmore

By David Mark Greaves David DinkinsMayor David Dinkins was a gentleman. He was courtly avuncular and, like his mentor and compatriot Percy Sutton, always impeccably dressed. He was one of an extraordinary group of men, Basil Paterson, Percy Sutton and Charlie Rangel, the “Gang of Four,” who dominated Harlem politics for decades.I first met the […]readmore

View From HereBy David Mark GreavesWhile the team of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will have much on their agenda, what should be on our agenda, is combatting the wave of suppression efforts today, and get ready for the tsunami of anti-voter efforts to come. The Republicans have tried everything they could […]readmore

Joe Biden is President Elect and Kamala Harris is Vice President-Elect, having won five million more in the popular vote than the other guy, but the electoral college made it a nail-biter. That’s going to be a problem for some time.Biden had been on a losing streak until Congressman Jim Clyburn’s endorsement in the South […]readmore