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How To Counter Crime? Wide-spread Vocational Training Programs Beats “Boots on the Ground”

The dreaded Rikers Island. Writer says the best solution is to equip young people with skills and remove them from…

Brad Lander. At this moment of transition for New York City, our communities are facing both anxious uncertainty and expansive…

Crystal Hudson. Crystal Hudson is running to represent New York City’s 35 Council District, which covers Fort Greene, Clinton Hill,…

Power yields nothing without struggle. Photo: Tony Webster/Wikimedia Commons The New York City mayoral election primaries are scheduled for June…

In response to the government-sponsored genocide happening in Tigray, Ethiopia — a war that has utilized starvation and rape…

The Joe Biden administration has made increasing affordable housing one of its main policy objectives. The best place to start…

Niesha Butler. With schools across the nation tossing out its cursive curriculum for coding classes, Brooklyn native Niesha Butler…

Dr. King. Photo: World Telegram & Sun, Dick DeMarsico/Library of Congress. For 400 years we have struggled to get this…

Former Mayor David Dinkins. Photo: Facebook. Statement by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The example Mayor David Dinkins…

The new team. Biden-Harris replaces Trump-Pence. Greetings sisters and brothers, comrades, compatriots, all over the world. In the…