‘Some Questionable Forces’: Frederick Douglass Statue Toppled from Base In Rochester, New York; Police Investigating

  Rochester, New York, police are investigating after a statue of Frederick Douglass in Aqueduct Park was toppled. Police confirmed on Wednesday that the statue was toppled off its concrete base. The statue was hauled away by city workers after it was reported by a passerby on […]

Attica 50: How The U.S. Government’s Lies About Prison Uprising Fueled Lingering Mistrust Of The System

Rebellious inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility give the Black power salute while Commissioner R.G. Oswald negotiates with leaders of the takeover. The riot began in the overcrowded prison after inmates discovered alleged undeniable racial biases with past prison sentences and parole decisions. A half-century after […]

Christmas Spirit in Bushwick

  By Yasin Muhammad Although I haven’t grown up in a Christian household, the spirit of Christmas had always been attractive to me, at least the toys gifts, and fun on the holidays. I knew it represented the day Jesus was born but I didn’t know […]

The Senate races in Georgia will shape the economic recovery

  New York (CNN Business)Just before the buzzer sounds on 2020, Washington has finally agreed on a $900 billion relief package that avoids driving the US economy off a cliff. But Uncle Sam’s work rescuing the economy from the worst pandemic in a century is not nearly done. Unemployed Americans, hurting […]

Who’s street? NY Bike Riders Street! 

(Photo credits: Peter Cooper) by Viviane Faver Amid so many protests in New York, one has been standing out and gaining more and more followers and strength in the form of community on the wheels – The Street Riders New York City.  Like other protest […]

When art and sex met on New York’s waterfront

    Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood is well-known now as an arts center, home to the Whitney Museum of American Art, major galleries and the elevated High Line park. But in the ’70s, the Hudson Piers that run along its coast were an unofficial creative space […]