Black and Brown Kids Should Attend Charter Schools

Black and Brown Kids Should Attend Charter Schools

By Linda Nwoke Editorial credit: Darwin Brandis / Shutterstock.com Every child deserves an education, yet it is more critical for children from black and brown communities than others because they are more likely to live in poverty, attend underfunded and understaffed schools, and be more likely to be expelled or suspended from school. In 2020, […]

Department of Labor (DOL) Top Jobs for Workers

Department of Labor (DOL) Top Jobs for Workers

By: Linda Nwoke  The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is the country’s federal agency in charge of protecting and promoting the welfare of job seekers, workers, and retired workers. The agency provides opportunities across various industries. There are about six major sectors in the economy. As of the end of March 2023, there were more […]

NYSNA nurses rally at Foley Square for safe staffing and pay parity. Photo credit: Rochni Khatri Public hospital and Mayoral agency nurses and supporters sounded the alarm on the crisis of high turnover and understaffing that harms patient care 25% of staff nurse positions remain vacant in NYC public hospitals and the city spent a […]

On International Workers’ Day, Unions and Worker Justice Groups Call for Passage of New York For All Act

On International Workers’ Day, Unions and Worker Justice Groups Call for Passage of New York For All Act

NEW YORK—Unions and worker justice organizations are joining the call for lawmakers in Albany to pass the New York for All Act, which would broadly prohibit local and state agencies from assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) in searching for, arresting and deporting immigrant New Yorkers. Twenty-five labor unions […]

Harry Belafonte, Jamaican-American Singer, Actor, Activist, Dies at 96

Harry Belafonte, Jamaican-American Singer, Actor, Activist, Dies at 96

Listen to a special podcast Article:By Selen Ozturk The pop-cultural giant broke racial boundaries as an entertainer and humanitarian for 70 years. Harry Belafonte, the Jamaican-American singer, actor, and political activist, died aged 96 on Tuesday. His longtime publicist Ken Sunshine said Belafonte died of congestive heart failure at his Manhattan, New York home, his […]

Keeping NBA players on the court is no small ‘feet’

Keeping NBA players on the court is no small ‘feet’

By Beth Daley The NBA playoffs provide a stage for some of the biggest and tallest athletes in the world. With an average height of 6 feet, 7 inches and an average weight of 225 pounds, players have a lot of skin, bone and muscle to support. That’s why their feet play such an outsize […]

A House Divided: How a Band of Speculators Seized Deeds of Black-Owned Brooklyn Brownstones

A House Divided: How a Band of Speculators Seized Deeds of Black-Owned Brooklyn Brownstones

BY GEORGE JOSEPH AND SAMANTHA MALDONADO BY GEORGE JOSEPH AND SAMANTHA MALDONADO Four years ago, Deborah Thomas got a call from an unknown number. The stranger on the line introduced himself as Eddie Doran and informed her that he was a new co-owner or soon to be co-owner of her home — a two-story brownstone just blocks away from the upscale restaurants […]

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