A closer look at Kanye’s 2020 presidential run
When Kanye West stepped on stage at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards and announced
that he would be running for president during his acceptance speech for the M... Read More...
Politics & Society
Latest Politics News in NYC
Mom and Family Outraged as Bronx DA Declines to Charge Officers Who Killed Kawaski Trawick in His Home
About the killing of Kawaski Trawick
On April 14, 2019, 32-year-old Kawaski Trawick was locked out of his apartment at Hill House in the Bronx. The fire de... Read More...
Black Economics Matters: From Black Pound Day to Black Pounds All Year Round
Saturday 27th June 2020 marked the first-ever Black Pound Day. The Black populations within the UK have practised economic boycotts from non-black businesses on... Read More...
We Saved Summer Youth From Being Cut, But The Battle Is Not Over!
Today marks July 6, 2020. The original date for the start of New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program. Today thousands of youth across New York City shou... Read More...
Fund Communities, Not Violent Police Officers: Justice Committee Demand a Billion Dollar Budget Cut from NYPD!
Families call on NYC Council to vote no on budget that doesn’t directly cut NYPD expense budget by at least $1 billion and redirect all related savings to commu... Read More...
Libya: Election Hopes Hang in the Balance
Libya is presently struggling with holding democratic election in the midst of economic and religious conflict. Democratic elections in Libya have been a highly... Read More...
Families of Police Violence Victims Lead NYC Rally To Defund Police & More(PRESS RELEASE)
On June 9th Mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers of kin of police violence victims led march thousands through the streets, 50a repeal passes through both h... Read More...
“BUCK” by MK Asante (A Raw & Honest Book Review 2020)
“They examine me intensely, looking for damage. The Damage you’re looking for has always been there… What you are seeing now is Survival…” BUCK is a memoir... Read More...
Terrorist Attacks By “Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama” in Mozambique Risk Leaving Its Citizens In The Dark and Without Electricity
Islamic Extremist Group, Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama (ASJW), is one of the driving forces behind the recent upsurge of extremist violence in Northern Mozambique. Since ... Read More...
The Crusade To Save NYC’s Summer Youth Program: Teens & Community Leaders Demand Justice!!
Summer Youth is one of New York's most effective programs for providing economic and professional opportunities to over 75,000 youth ages 14-24 in New York City... Read More...
Kunti K: And Liberia’s Long Road From Atrocity to Mental Health
The crimes he is suspected of, in both number and brutality, are rivaled by few in modern history. For his part in the first Liberian Civil War, which after a s... Read More...
Why are they looting?: Grappling with Expressions of Black Pain and What Activist Fannie Lou Hamer Taught Us About It (Op Ed)
As darkness fell upon the Atlanta skyline, the tide began to shift. On Friday, May 30th, 2020, peaceful gatherings gave way to physical expressions and outcrie... Read More...
“Panther Power” & Justice For “George Floyd” and The Rest of Our Fallen Soldiers
“As real as it seems the American Dream
Ain't nothing but another calculated scheme..." 2pac Shakur
Tupac Shakur wrote these words in the early 1990s a... Read More...
How the Justice Committee is Protecting New Yorkers from Police Violence. An interview with Simone Gamble
“You can’t use policing to solve public health problems...What communities need is more education, public services notices and engagement by social services a... Read More...
