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NYC: Veteran-Owned Businesses To Receive $15,000 Grants Through ‘Boss Up’ Mentorship Program

Photos: NYC Boss Up NEW YORK (February 5, 2024) — On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), the ...

New York Attorney General: We Are Investigating Police Killing Of 19-Year-Old On Long Island

By Letitia James Photos: YouTube Screenshots NEW YORK – The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) has opened an investigation into ...

Brennan Center: Bail Reform Did Not Drive Crime Increase

Photos: YouTube Screenshots In 2019 New York State adopted a law ending the assessment of cash bail in most cases involving misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies. ...

Eyewitness To Killing Of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay Tells Jury: “Then I See Jay Just Fall”

Photos: YouTube Screenshots For about 15 years, Uriel Rincon told authorities he didn’t recognize the gunman who killed Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay and wounded ...

Brooklyn Borough President Praises Announcement Of Commercial Waste Reform Contract Awards

Photos: YouTube Screenshots BROOKLYN, NY – In response to today’s announcement by the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) of contract awards and ...

New York: City Council Overrides Eric Adams’ Criminal Justice Vetoes

By Annie McDonough\City & State Photos: YouTube Screenshots  The New York City Council voted to override Mayor Eric Adams’ vetoes of two law enforcement ...

NYC Council Expected To Override Mayor Adams A Second Time Tuesday

Photos: YouTube Screenshots The City Council is expected to override Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of a controversial policing bill Tuesday afternoon– the culmination of ...

NYPD Makes Baseless Arrests In Effort To Repress Pro-Palestine Demonstration

By ANSWER Coalition Photos: ANSWER Coalition\YouTube Screenshots January 27, 2024, New York City – In another outrageous attack on free speech rights, NYPD officers ...

Award-Winning Journalist Melvin McCray’s Photography To Appear In ‘Long Journey Forward: Black Men In Passage’

Photos: Melvin McCray\Kenkelba House Award-winning journalist Melvin McCray’s photography will appear in ‘Long Journey Forward: Black Men In Passage’ at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery ...

NYCLU: Lawsuit Filed To Further Expose Racial Disparities In NY Criminal Legal System

Photos: YouTube Screenshots NEW YORK– Thursday, on behalf of Scrutinize, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic submitted ...