By Mohamed Q. Amin On Sunday, March 22, New York City lost a beloved teacher, friend, sister, daughter, and colleague, a tireless crusader for education justice. I was 14-years-old when I first met Dez-Ann Romain. She walked into Mrs. McCauley’s art class at Far Rockaway High School in Queens, NY, with intimidating confidence and fearlessness. […]
By Maeve Reston, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) – For more than a year on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential contenders spoke at nearly every event about the number of families in America who were living at the precipice, one paycheck away from losing everything — even as the economy was booming. Now […]
By Associated Press (AP) — Grocery workers across the globe are working the frontlines during lockdowns meant to keep the coronavirus from spreading. Their stores are deemed essential, and their work puts them close to the public and therefore at risk. Often in low-wage jobs, the workers have earned praise from Pope Francis and former […]
By Thomas Tracy and Larry McShane, NY Daily News As transit union workers cheered the arrival of 250,000 N95 masks Saturday, angry corrections workers remained at war with the city over access to the same protective gear. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority quickly began distributing the in-demand protective masks to safeguard transit workers from the coronavirus, […]
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The new coronavirus has traveled unseen paths from Wuhan, China, to virtually all corners of the globe. Evidence of its movements abound, from the proliferation of people wearing face masks to the sudden absence of toilet paper on store shelves. How did a virus that didn’t even exist just a few months ago manage to […]
The disease COVID-19, caused by the Coronavirus, otherwise known as SARS-CoV-2, has affected over 160 known patients across 18 states in the U.S. In New York, there are 11 new cases, with less than 5 people dead from the virus so far. However, the constant coverage of the virus is leading to a lot of […]
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New York, NY – February 5, 2019: Eric Adams Brooklyn Borough President attends launch EAT-Lancet Commission Report on Food, Planet, Health at United Nations Headquarters. (Shutterstock) Friends, Brooklyn Borough Hall continues to be dedicated to informing all Brooklynites of the state of the Borough during this time, and will continue sending out frequent updates, such as this one, […]
Nov 24, 2019 Santa Clara / CA / USA – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office located in Silicon Valley; USCIS is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (Shutterstock) Effective March 18, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is suspending in-person services at its field offices, asylum offices and Application Support […]
By Marry Kassian, Cross Cards “Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will triumph in Yahweh; I will rejoice in […]