With the Zadroga bill’s two critical programs – the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund – set to expire in October 2015 and October 2016 respectively, Continue reading
NYC Council Mark-Viverito Sticks To Demand For More Cops
The leader of the New York City Council renewed her push to add more cops to the NYPD's head count -- setting up a potential conflict with Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose preliminary budget had no new cops for the 35,000-officer force.Continue reading
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Harlem’s Basil Smikle Jr., New Ex. Director Of State Dem Party
Former Gov. David Paterson, the chairman of the New York State Democratic Party, announced today that Basil Smikle Jr., a top Democratic consultant, will become the new executive director of the party.Continue reading
Harlem Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito And NYC Council Members Kick off Participatory Budgeting
Today, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and New York City Council Members kicked off the voting period for New York City’s 2014-2015 participatory budgeting cycle — now the largest such process in the nation.Continue reading
Harlem’s Inez Dickens And Black Institute Unveil Business Report At City Hall
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Harlem City Council Inez Dickens, the Black Institute President Bertha Lewis, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke, Mount Neboh Baptist Church Rev. Dr. Johnnie M. Green Jr., Assemblyman Michael Blake; and other Council Members Kallos, Cumbo, and Eugene, minority business owners representing construction, financial services, and other sectors.Continue reading
Harlem United Supports Gov Coumo’s Budget
Harlem United today acknowledged the significant investments in health, housing and human services Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature have made in the SY2015-2016 budget. Continue reading
Seitu’s World: Rangel Wins Primary 2014!
By Seitu Oronde
Harlem's Rep. Rangel wins primary as Henry Singleton 1199 SEIU organizer holds declaring his support.Continue reading
Richard B. Moore, The Caribbean Militant Of Harlem 1893–1978
Richard Benjamin Moore, 1893–1978, was an African-Caribbean civil rights activist and prominent communist. He was also one of the advocates of the term African American as opposed to Negro.Continue reading
Gov Cuomo’s Tips To Prevent Identity Theft
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today issued a consumer alert to urge Harlemites and New Yorkers to protect themselves against identity theft during the busy holiday shopping season when that risk is especially high.Continue reading
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.,’s Congressional Hearing On Harlem Street, NY, 1965
A photo of the first street Congressional Hearing of the Education and Labor Committee organized by Chairman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., in Harlem, New York, Jul 26, 1965.Continue reading
Harlem Woman Helps India Sex Trafficking Victims
A trip to India in 2010 forever changed Morgan Hansen.
Now she hopes to do the same thing for victims of sex trafficking in that country.Continue reading
Marcus Garvey In His Harlem Office, 1914
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).Continue reading
AIDS, Identity And Legacy In Contemporary Gay History
By Tod Roulette
In 1986, I was a fledging openly gay black man on an overwhelmingly white college campus in the Midwest.
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