Mari-angela Guramata and her daughter attend a resource fair outside Lincoln Hospital Sunday, August 21. (Spectrum News NY1/Edric Robinson) Roger Milliner was one of dozens of workers at a resource fair on the grounds of Lincoln hospital this weekend. He’s part of one of the many organizations across New York providing community services for those […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James is defending a 44-year-old federal measure that is meant to provide protections for indigenous families across the country and now being challenged at the U.S. Supreme Court. James signed onto an amicus brief with a bipartisan coalition of 24 attorneys general from around the country in support of the […]
Police raced to the building on Rockaway Parkway near Winthrop St. in East Flatbush after someone reported hearing gunfire at 1:17 a.m. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News) A 42-year-old woman shot to death in the lobby of her Brooklyn apartment building early Monday had recently reported separate assaults from an ex-boyfriend, her cousin and […]
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971,’ opening Aug. 21, explores the myriad of ways Black filmmakers and performers have impacted film history and visual culture across decades. A still from William Selig’s ‘Something Good — Negro Kiss’ (1898), with Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown. COURTESY OF USC HMH FOUNDATION Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, the Academy Museum of Motion […]
On this edition of ‘The Countdown,’ Eyewitness News dug deeper into Tuesday’s New York Democratic primary and the major races as candidates worked to pick up any last minute votes. HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) — Police are searching for two people wanted for a broad-daylight shootout on a busy Harlem street. It happened around 7:30 p.m. on […]
The Big Apple says at least 1,000 will enter the school system next month. New York City on Friday announced that it is launching a program to get hundreds of migrant children into schools, just as the “sanctuary” city is dealing with a surge in illegal immigrants being bused in from Texas. The program, named “Project […]
Civil rights leader Clara Luper poses with a photograph from her scrapbooks at a community center in Oklahoma City, Okla., in August 1983. Sixty-four years ago Friday, 13 Black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Oklahoma City, shaping the course of the civil rights movement. Other sit-ins, like the Feb. 1, 1960, […]
A Chicago educator named Dwayne Reed is paying musical tribute to kindergarten students and their teachers. Dwayne Reed has a knack for speaking to kids through music.Mr. Reed via YouTube A teacher’s “Welcome to Kindergarten” song is helping to reduce first-day-of-school anxieties for many children this year. Dwayne Reed, a dean of students at a […]
Here’s one increase in city traffic that won’t have you pounding a car hood: The waters of our archipelago city have been rife with sightings of marine life all summer long. While sharks have gotten the most attention, pictures of whales, bottlenose dolphins, rays and other underwater urbanites have flooded social media, enchanting beachgoers and dramatically updating perceptions […]
Brittney Griner is escorted from the court room following her Russian trial. Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/Reuters The WNBA star Brittney Griner was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to nine years in Russian prison after customs agents found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage in February. Griner’s team has appealed the decision, but if she’s not included in […]