Mayor Eric Adams speaks during lighting ceremony to kick off NYC Winter Outing at Empire State Building. New York, NY – January 18, 2022 (Shutterstock) NEW YORK, NY – Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced additional members of the City Hall press team, who will be charged with helping to craft Mayor Adams’ message and liaising […]
Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington DC. (Shutterstock) By Joshua F.J. Inwood, The Conversation More than 50 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the United States remains divided by issues of race and racism, economic inequality as well as unequal access to justice. These issues are stopping the country from developing into […]
Senator Chuck Schumer, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mayor de Blasio and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell survey storm damage in Woodside, Queens. New York, NY – September 6, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Erin Donnelly, AOL Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is reflecting on her bout with COVID-19, which she says has made her “slow down” in order to recover. On […]
Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Henry Garrido of the DC-37 union tour coronavirus (COVID-19) mass vaccination site at Citi Field baseball stadium home of the Mets. – New York, NY – March 27, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Reuven Blau, THE CITY A nonprofit umbrella group has taken the unusual step of suing the city […]
To My Extended Family of the 43rd Assembly District (Constituents of Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Garden, East Flatbush and Wingate) I write this letter to you today with bittersweet news that I want you to hear from me directly: After six years serving as your Assemblywoman, I will be leaving this role to serve you […]
By American Immigration Council Legal Staff, Immigration Impact Written by Caroline Walters and Kate Melloy Goettel Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two related immigration cases. Each asks whether certain noncitizens are entitled to bond hearings before a judge after the government has detained them for a prolonged amount of time. The […]
By Vicki Crawford, The Conversation An avid reader King read voraciously across a wide range of topics, everything from the “The Diary of Anne Frank” to “Candide.” Of course, he also read about theology and religion and philosophy and politics. But he especially enjoyed literature and the works of Leo Tolstoy. The Morehouse College Martin […]
By CAW Editorial Staff Prominent Guyanese Attorney, Colin A. Moore, died of natural causes at 80-years-old on January 9, 2022. Moore will be remembered as “a Renaissance Scholar who has had a distinguished career in many areas of public service, as Adjunct Professor of Law, Congressional Aide, Attorney-at-Law, Public Speaker, Journalist, Political Analyst, Community Activist, […]
Early voting on Manhattan’s Upper Westside West Side High School. – New York City, New York/USA October 28, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Chris Tobias New York Republicans have filed a lawsuit to prevent the implementation of Intro 1867, the noncitizen voting law passed by the New York City Council, which went into effect on Monday, January […]
NEW YORK, NY: Despite the surge in the variants and increasing deaths across the nation and around the world, people of color still lag when it comes to getting vaccinations against COVID-19. To make matters worse, Black, Hispanic and Native American people are about four times more likely to be hospitalized and nearly three times […]