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New COVID-19 rental assistance | Bronx Free Press

It’s help for home. An emergency rental assistance program to assist New Yorkers who lost income due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been announced. Designed to keep low-income tenants in their homes, the COVID Rent Relief Program will provide…

Uptown Video: Latinos Out Loud – 2020 Census PSA

Ain’t no party like a census party because a census party provides crucial resources to your community. Shout out to the LOL gang, The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) and the office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A Brewer…

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UC Must-Reads: America’s Enduring Caste System

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dan Davenport (@dandavenportnyc) on Jul 8, 2020 at 7:20am PDT Isabel Wilkerson is a stone-cold, intellectual powerhouse. Her magnum opus, The Warmth of Other Suns, is a straight up tour…

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Uptown Video: Uptown’s Forgotten Slave Cemetery

Prior to 1827, the Dyckmans, and other Uptown families, made use of enslaved labor. Today the Dyckman Farmhouse has been preserved as museum on Broadway and West 204th Street in the Inwood section of northern Manhattan. The cemetery where…

The Uptown Tweet of the Week: #Goyaway

Inexcusable, graceless, and perplexing. When a corporation with a predominately Latino customer base chooses to embrace the most vile, xenophobic, racist and predatory political figure of this era, its disqualifying. The Latino community will remember this @Goyafoods#Goyaway https://t.co/CKhg14IpLZ —…

A “blended” back to school | Bronx Free Press

It’ll be an autumn to remember. At a press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled his administration’s plan to reopen public schools in September, which includes a combination of remote and in-person learning and the staggering of…

Refashioning summer youth jobs | Manhattan Times

By Gregg McQueen When the city’s latest budget was approved on July 1, it included $51 million for the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). The funding came as a relief to many after Mayor Bill de Blasio had initially…

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Mood Music: Patogeno Musa Ft. AcentOh – Demasiado Negro

This goes SO hard. Shout out to Patogeno Musa and AcentOh for repping Afro-Latinidad so powerfully and properly. We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter &…