LeBron James named 2020 Sportsperson of the Year

  James and four other athletes were featured in this activist-centered issue of Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated’s 2020 Sportsperson of the Year goes to five men and women who were champions in every sense of the word.   AOC Launches Virtual Tutoring Program To Assist […]

AOC Launches Virtual Tutoring Program To Assist NY Students With Homework During Pandemic

  U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is searching for tutors in New York City to help with her new Homework Helpers Program. Late last month, New York City controversially closed public schools again because of the rising COVID-19 infection rate. Ocasio-Cortez decided to step in and create the Homework Helpers Program […]

QUEENS 1930

  As most Forgotten New York readers know, I enjoy maps, especially historic ones that show what the streets of NYC looked like in previous decades. Today, I’ll review an outline map of Queens I saw posted on Facebook by Todd Berkun. This outline map […]

ICE takes advantage of holidays to deport immigrants in the now called Flights of Death

By Viviane Faver  The new administration must dismantle Trump’s deportation machine and end family detention and separation.  Only in Pennsylvania, more than twenty-three black and Latino families, including 28 children, face hasty deportations. Due to the violence from which they fled, and are likely to […]

Patti LaBelle, the Doyenne of Philadelphia Soul

  By Mark Anthony Neal Photographs by Hank Willis Thomas and Deb Willis Styled by Alex Harrington PATTI LABELLE’S superpower is a spellbinding scream — a refined shriek, really — that makes hairs stand at attention, bones shiver and spines twist. It was 1975 when I first heard it. I […]