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…
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BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cole Thompson (@inwood_cole) on May 24, 2020 at 8:35am PDT It has been a little over 2 months and some days since Governor Andrew Cuomo issued…
By Arlene Schulman “There are no strangers here. Only friends you haven’t met yet.” William Butler Yeats Coogan’s story begins in 1985 in Washington Heights in a New York City community overwhelmed by gunfire, drugs, riots, and homicides, and…
Fill out the form- and your appetite. To motivate the 50% of all city residents who have yet to respond to the U.S. Census, a new partnership between NYC Census 2020 and food delivery service Seamless has been struck.…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) May 19th was the 95th anniversary of the birth of the late, great Malcolm X. Malcolm X changed my life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X written with Alex Haley literally put the Black in Led Black. The book which has sold…
There is a bit more support for the sorrow. Greater assistance is being provided by the city to aid families in need who are grappling with the loss of loved ones in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. The…
It’ll be a service of swabs and swipes. All residents are welcome to take advantage of a new partnership between Governor Andrew Cuomo and SOMOS, a nonprofit network of over 2,500 physicians, which will bring 28 new COVID-19 test…
A Word From Word Up Books Help us remain closed and healthy as an organization, until we can safely and responsibly reopen for our community! In June 2020, Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria will celebrate its ninth birthday. Since…
By Gregg McQueen and Debralee Santos Overlooking Highbridge Park, the building is an unassuming structure tucked into a quiet, leafy intersection on Edgecombe Avenue. It once served as the 100-bed Mother Cabrini Memorial Hospital, one of the numerous facilities…