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

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