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…
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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 Gregg 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…
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…
Before Hamilton, before In The Heights, there was Freestyle Love Supreme. Freestyle Love Supreme is just that, some supremely talented emcees spreading love with their uncanny freestyle rap abilities. Trust us, their is nothing quite like Freestyle Love Supreme.…
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…