According to a UCLA’s Civil Rights Project report, as of 2014 schools in New York City remain the most segregated schools of all. And here we were thinking such schools were in the south. Silly us. Anyway, the Department of Education is making moves to change that. […]
On Saturday, April 28, 16-year-old Alijay Morgan was fatally stabbed in the Bronx while protecting his little brother from bullies. His mother Patricia Gay , 34, told The New York Daily News , “ My big one turned around and saw the little one was […]
Rashad Robinson *”This executive order to restore the rights of people on parole is a step in the right direction, but Governor Cuomo has a long way to go in enacting substantive criminal justice reform. Since 2017, we have been pushing Governor Cuomo to take […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton held court, surrounded by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and other high-profile leaders and rallied activists packed in a conference room at the National Action Network (NAN) convention on Wednesday. Source: Al Sharpton Leads A Call To Defend Civil Rights […]
Statue of doctor who did experimental surgery without anesthesia on enslaved African-American women is removed from New York’s Central Park. The statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims, is removed by crane, Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in New York’s Central Park. Source: NYC removes statue of […]
In March, Governor Andrew Cuomo stood in front of a public housing building for the first time in recent memory and told reporters that “the residents’ rights have been abused, period.” On the request of the tenants themselves, he had just toured one of the decaying apartments […]
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