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…
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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…
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The pandemic has changed everything. Even graduation, better yet, especially graduation. Shout out to Columbia University for this wonderful video on one of their accomplished graduates. Meet Aury García, a graduate of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and…
It is a tale of two Juans. Listen up folks, it is a must that you click below and check out the 5th episode of ¡Uptown Palante! With Mino Lora. This week’s guests are Mike “Juan Bago” Diaz and…
Your reminder that there is not just racism in the criminal justice system, there is racism in the healthcare system. Covid-19 death rates by race in NYC, as of 5/28: pic.twitter.com/MpNZcJruaB — Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) May 29, 2020…
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.…
Journalist, broadcaster and author, Farai Chideya penned a power piece in the Washington Post that delves on how the pandemic has exposed the festering inequality that is so pronounced in our beloved New York City. This sentence from the…
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…