By David Mark Greaves The killing of St. John’s University student Tiarah Poyau and 17-year-old Tyreke Borel at the J’Ouvert Festival before the Labor Day parade, in the presence of 250 light towers, 45 cameras and an army of police officers, says that of the 250,000 revelers, there were some who just don’t care and are […]readmore
View From Here By David Mark Greaves Thank you Colin Kaepernick for drawing attention to the national anthem, and especially thank you to Shaun King for writing in the New York Daily News an eye-opening column on the white supremacist history of the Star-Spangled Banner and its author, Francis Scott Key. In explaining why […]readmore
By David Mark Greaves There are so many lessons to be taken away from the Olympics: focus, determination, ambition, bravery were all on display showing us mortals, what the human spirit is capable of making the body do. The U.S. led the medal count compiled by these extraordinary individuals with 121. The breakdown by sex […]readmore
By David Mark Greaves I don’t know that we’ve ever seen opposite sides of humanity more clearly than the juxtaposition of U.S. Olympian gymnast Simone Biles with her teammates Laurie Hernandez, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian versus Donald Trump these last few days. After their years of hard work, these young women defy […]readmore
By David Greaves (Note: This column has been corrected due to a misattributed quote and includes the administration’s responses to questions.) Despite efforts by the de Blasio Administration, the legacy of racism continues to cause New York City to spend its money in a way that is grotesquely unequal; promoting segregation, gentrification, poverty, crime, […]readmore
By David Mark Greaves Looking at both political conventions, even for the most cynical, it cannot be argued that this election is six of one, half dozen of the other. This one is for real. The Republicans made a testosterone-driven expression of such white male anger and hate that the ugliness was on full display, […]readmore
By David Mark Greaves Okay, we know we’re better than this as a nation and we have to hold firm to that thought as we work our way through these increasingly difficult times. Sniper Micah Johnson was a man who snapped. He was known to be unstable, and what led him to commit the […]readmore
David Mark Greaves You cannot but be moved to tears with reports about the last moments and the lives lost in the murderous rampage in Orlando. This one happened to be at a gay night club instead of a school or street corner. That the perpetrator was a Muslim and claimed he did it for […]readmore
