NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga today celebrated the 10 year anniversary of the city’s landmark Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law. The law, which went into effect in April 2014, was historic in its scope, and now offers more than 3.8 million employees the legal right to […]
Editorial credit: Vicki L. Miller / Shutterstock.com By Chris Tobias O.J. Simpson, born Orenthal James Simpson on July 9, 1947, in San Francisco, California, is a figure whose life and legacy are deeply intertwined with American culture and history. Simpson’s life is a tale of triumph and tragedy that traverses the heights of athletic success […]
By Joe Hernandez | NPR Twenty years ago, two economists responded to a slew of help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers using a set of fictitious names to test for racial bias in the job market. The watershed study found that applicants with names suggesting they were white got 50% more callbacks from employers than those […]
By Marina Dunbar | City Limits On the eighth of a nine-night funerary celebration, a circle of about 20 people sat in solidarity to celebrate Pan-Africanism and honor their ancestors. It was unusually warm for a late October evening in Brooklyn. The 72 degrees Fahrenheit weather might be convenient for an outdoor ceremony, but on […]