Almost 28 years ago, Washington Heights erupted in righteous indignation over the police murder of Josรฉ โKikoโ Garcรญa who was only 22 when he was gunned down like a dog in the street in a building in the lower…
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View this post on Instagram ๐๐ก๐๐๐จ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ก๐ฎ Mi gente of Uptown/Bronx stand up! New date for our protest is Sunday June 14th at 12pm. Meet up at Mitchel Sq. On 167th and Broadway. What we need from you?…
Photography: E. Abreu Visuals Words: ย 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…
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…
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…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Lonardo (@chrislonardo) on Jun 3, 2020 at 7:04pm PDT We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter…
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…
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…
By Greggโ McQueen View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bronx Free Press (@bxfreepress) on Jun 2, 2020 at 4:11pm PDT David Caba watched social media videos of fires and looting in the Bronx on Monday night…
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…