Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born on January 15, 1929, turned 39 years old fifty years ago. Assassinated on April 4, 1968, he didn’t make it to 40. Yet in his scant 39 years on the planet, he upended the ways we think about race, […]
We now know beyond all doubt that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. elections to help Donald J. Trump and certain Republican congressional candidates win. Although almost a year has passed since Trump and newly-elected congressional leaders took office, it’s still not too late for […]
It appears that Harlem’s new representative in Congress has begun to bring home the bacon from Washington D.C. He announced this week that he has secured a whopping $500 million for his 13th Congressional District that includes parts of the Bronx. Congressman Adriano […]
New York City jail population is below 9,000 for the first time in 35 years, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. He said the Big Apple is on track for monthly population below this figure. “New York City has the lowest incarceration rate of all […]
As bad as things have been for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board (S&WB) last summer with failed turbines and local flooding events leading to a series of firings and resignations among the agency’s top leaders, things are about to get testier with recent […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has unveiled 2018 State of the State proposal to strengthen the workforce aimed at preparing New Yorkers for future jobs. He has already earmarked a whopping $175million for the project. Cuomo has already created an Office of Workforce Development to oversee state’s […]
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