Building Skills New York, a non-profit organization working to provide underserved New Yorkers with good paying jobs, announced today September Workers of the Month, Dornita Bell (above) and Akiya...
State Senator Brian Kavanagh hosted a press event to honor Daisy Paez who was selected as the 2020 Woman of Distinction in the 26th Senate District.
Each year, the Senate honors outstanding...
U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced today that they are working to assist Queens food assistance organizations that are experiencing sudden impacts in their...
The following COVID-19 update, for the Brooklyn and Queens areas in New York City, is from the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.
We are writing to provide an update...
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to the Honorable Chad Wolf of the Department of Homeland Security demanding he not act on the...
New York Attorney General Letitia James promised Sunday to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police misconduct that her office investigates.
Speaking in...
New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) labeling New York City — along with Portland, Oregon and Seattle...
Social welfare group FPWA released the following statement saying the U.S. Census figures citing a decline in New York City poverty does not reflect the current COVID-19 reality.
The U.S....
I and four other analysts have said goodbye to the Brooklyn-based Left Right News after its owner, Michael Lieber, dropped the ball in many ways.
Chiefly, he didn’t account for racism...
PHOTO: IT'S ON! : Berkshire Black Lives Matter President Raymond Moore and Nova Z join forces to hammer the "School of Hate- " St. Mary's School in Lee, MA- the Springfield MA Diocese and the...
Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams announced a campaign today to re-define public safety, a public education campaign to work alongside the ongoing public policy effort aimed at envisioning and...
Today, September 16, 2020 Mount Vernon Mayor Patterson-Howard joined the newly formed Mayors for A Guaranteed Income (MGI), a growing coalition of twenty-five mayors from across the country, to...
PHOTO: Fr. Kaz- friend of three popes- and provincial superior of the Order Of Marian Fathers and The National Shrine of Divine Mercy- blesses Nova Z at her first communion as her personal guest...
Council Member Inez Barron and Assembly Member Charles Barron have asked Mayor de Blasio to rethink displacement of families at the Flatlands Avenue Family Residence Shelter.
On Tuesday,...
Kambale Musavuli will be Milton Allimadi's guest on today's Black Star News Show.
Greetings Sisters and Brothers. Tune in September 15 at 3 PM (a link to today's show is below) U.S. Eastern...
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