An impromptu survey finds that about half of a sample of city offices participate in a 20-year-old program to distribute voter registration forms.
Happy Monday people! How you all enjoyed your weekend, now for some BX news! Fight night at Yankee Stadium was a success, Cotto Justice Sotomayor Police are seeking the public's help in finding the two men who shot and killed cab driver, 48 year-old Cesar Santos, yesterday afternoon on Sedgwick Avenue. …
Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all enjoyed your weekend, now for some Bronx news! Police are asking for the public's assistance in finding two young men who allegedly shot and killed a Bronx, livery cab driver, 48 year-old Cesar Santos, yesterday on Sedgwick Avenue. Read more here. A car crash on the Cross…
Black joblessness has defied solution for decades. But organizations in the trenches are making a dent.
In the lobby of STRIVE, an employment-training program in East Harlem, the messages are clear, stated in a bold, black font on posters that greet the overwhelmingly black and Latino clients as they get off the elevator and enter the lobby: "Please Remove Your Hats." "Please Do Not Wear Pants Below the Waist." "Please Do…
Rather than play a high-stakes game around the U.S. Census in March, immigration activists in New York are poised to play a crucial role in the federal debate on immigration law reform.
Life is tough in the projects and on the streets, but leavened with music and friendship in this crop of new city books.
Hepatitis and HIV are rampant in the state’s prisons. Rather than leaving the care of sick prisoners solely in the hands of corrections officials, a new law gives the Department of Health oversight, too.
With HIV spreading especially fast among young black men, advocates press for better treatment for communities of color in housing, corrections and immigrants’ services.
By his own count, during his years as an addict Casimiro Steven Torres piled up 67 arrests for a variety of petty and not-so-petty crimes.
