NEW YORK, USA – SEP 07, 2014: Memorial Complex to the victims of September 11, 2001 on the spot where stood the twin towers – Shutterstock Image By CBS New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Today, New York City and the nation marked 18 years since the September 11th terror attacks. A somber ceremony was held this morning […]
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 26, 2019: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION headquarters building sign with building exterior. – Shutterstock Image By Yoav Gonen and Alex Zimmerman, THE CITY City education officials have allowed more than a thousand students with disabilities to languish without services for months — despite orders from administrative hearing officers, according to advocates who […]
By James Reinl
NEW YORK, United States (IPS) – The global fight against AIDS is floundering amid cash shortfalls and spikes in new HIV infections among marginalized groups in developing regions, Gunilla Carlsson, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), said yesterday. Speaking with reporters in New York at UN headquarters, Carlsson, head of UN-led […]
We Had A Great Time At the Labor Day Parkway! It was impressive, despite the rain the amount of volunteers we got, handing out flyers, getting folks to sign our contact sheets and take photos at our Photo Booth! Below are images of our most popular t-shirts. And the great time that we had with […]
On Monday, a bronze sculpture of Gibson, the first black player to win a Grand Slam, will be unveiled outside Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows in New York - the world's biggest tennis arena named after another pioneering African-American. These two tributes stand as testaments to obstacles overcome, during a time when the United States was politically and socially rooted in racial segregation.
Gibson, pictured here with Marble at Forest Hills in 1950, went on to win five Grand Slam singles titles – the French Open (1956), Wimbledon (1957, 1958) and the US Open (1957, 1958) By Jonathan Jurejko, BBC Sport in New York “Everything was white. The balls, the clothes, the socks, the shoes, the people. Ev-ery-thing.” […]
In 109 of the last 118 years, the NYPD has been run by white men — including James O’Neill, the current commissioner. Since 1901, when the NYPD was first run by a single commissioner, only two of the 42 commissioners appointed by mayors have been non-white.
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY Nearly 70% of New York City’s residents are Hispanic, black, Asian or mixed race — a non-white majority that’s steadily solidified since the 1980s. But over at One Police Plaza, the top ranks of the New York City Police Department appear to be frozen in time. Almost 80% of […]
By MSN NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A New York State law decriminalizing marijuana takes effect today. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure last month. “Communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by laws governing marijuana for far too long, and today we are ending this injustice once and for all,” he said in a statement at the time. “By […]
By Joey Fox, Gotham Gazette On the night of November 7, 1989, then-Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins made history. With election night returns coming in, it became clear that Dinkins had narrowly defeated then-U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani and would become the first black mayor of New York City. It was the culmination of an arduous […]
(Brooklyn, New York) — Legislation sponsored by Senator Roxanne J. Persaud that protects victims of domestic violence from discrimination in the workplace was signed into law yesterday by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Later in the day on Tuesday, Aug. 20, Governor Cuomo signed Bill S1040, which establishes victims of domestic violence as a protected class in […]
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY When then-City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito learned she was accused in a civil rights lawsuit of pressuring NYCHA to replace a black supervisor with a Latino employee, her lawyers got a judge to dismiss her as a defendant. Then, earlier this year, the judge changed his mind. Now the […]