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06/06/20: Black Lives Matter Protest Uptown

Photography: E. Abreu Visuals Words:  Led Black The protest was postponed but it still happened. All of the different organizations that were involved in organizing the protest, the Uptown Collective included, decided collectively, for various reasons, to postpone the…

UC Must-Reads: Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

Listen up folks, you absolutely need to read Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop by a former California police officer. Even with all videos that we have seen recently about abhorrent police behavior, this article is an eye-opener. Without…

New York City Quarantine Film Festival

Presented by Inwood Art Works, producer of the acclaimed Inwood Film Festival and Film Works Alfresco programs in NYC. The purpose of the New York Quarantine Film Festival is to encourage New Yorkers to express their creativity, celebrate their…

34th Precinct

The Uptown Tweet of the Week: End The Curfew Now

This curfew is serving as a pretext for aggressive and violent confrontation of protesters by the police. It is doing nothing to make our city more peaceful, it is doing the opposite. It is scheduled to continue through Sun…

Rage and Resistance | Manhattan Times

Photos by Cristobal Vivar New York City has been on edge following several days of protests in response to the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Tensions have flared during a series of incidents between…

Op-Led: Don’t Let Anyone Divide Us

BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I woke up this morning to find #Dominicans trending on Twitter. I was aghast to say the least. The reason that Dominicans were trending was because a supposed racial incident that took place on Dyckman…