By Gregg McQueen “We can’t let that happen anymore.” In detailing the city’s plan to bring public school students back to the classroom this fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter have made clear: in-person learning…
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Here's the bottom line: 1. Vaccination dramatically improves your odds against covid. Get vax'd ASAP if you haven't yet. 2. Breakthrough cases, while uncommon, still happen, so if you're vax'd you need to take precautions like wearing a mask…
We are at a critical impasse in this fight against COVID-19. The only way to move forward as a society is to get as many people vaccinated as possible. With that said, the constant drumbeat of anti-vax nonsense is…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Atlantic (@theatlantic) The Delta Variant has upended our recovery and is wreaking havoc across the globe. The always brilliant Ed Yong takes a long hard look at how the…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jon M Chu (@jonmchu) In The Heights director, Jon M. Chu has been posting some Behind-The-Scenes gems on Instagram. Check out this video documenting the first time cast members, Melissa…
Listen up familia, check out the national broadcast and streaming debut of The Neutral Ground on the PBS documentary series POV and pbs.org/pov TONIGHT, Monday, July 5, 2021. The Neutral Ground documents New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance…
Hit up theaters or Hulu right now to catch SUMMER OF SOUL. We simply did not know that in the summer of 1969 some simply stellar talent performed Uptown for The Harlem Cultural Festival, which was filmed in Mount…
A new sculpture depicting Margaret Corbin has been unveiled on the upper plaza of David Rockefeller Linden Terrace in Fort Tryon Park. Tomb Effigy of Margaret Corbin by artist Zaq Landsberg will be displayed through June 2022. Landsberg is the…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Moth (@mothstories) Still on cloud nine. Super honored that I was chosen by The Moth & NoMAA to tell my story on the same stage as of…
Our very own Led Black talks with Nelson “cekis” Rivas, one of the artists the DOT, in collaboration with NoMAA, commissioned to paint the 191st Street Tunnel mural. Filmed at Locksmith Bar and Grill by Dyckman’s Diary. We invite…