Keeping Up with Manuel Castro, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs

Keeping Up with Manuel Castro, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs

Listen to a special podcast Photos courtesy: MOIA By Linda Nwoke New York City is celebrated for its diverse and vibrant immigrant communities. As of 2021, New York City remained home to over 3.1 million immigrants, constituting about 37% of the City’s population. According to the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, there are over 200 […]

Rep. Clarke and Democratic Leaders Respond to H.R. 2, Introduce the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2023

Rep. Clarke and Democratic Leaders Respond to H.R. 2, Introduce the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke joined Rep. Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA) to introduce the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2023, a bold, inclusive, and humane vision for the future of the United States immigration system. For the announcement, Sánchez joined Democratic leaders to respond to H.R. 2, the Child Deportation Act, legislation proposed […]

The Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely

The Subway Lynching of Jordan Neely

Listen to a special podcast Friends, Watching that white former marine choking the life out of Jordan Neely made my blood boil. Hearing that the pigs hadn’t arrested the murderer made it even worse. If you’re in NYC, join me on Wed, May 10, at 7PM to get into the burning questions this outrage poses. […]

Public Hospital Nurses Joined by Rev. Sharpton and Allies for Rally at Foley Square to Say: “It Costs NYC Too Much to Keep Nurse Pay So Low”

Public Hospital Nurses Joined by Rev. Sharpton and Allies for Rally at Foley Square to Say: “It Costs NYC Too Much to Keep Nurse Pay So Low”

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 […]

COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here’s what that means (and what we’ve learned along the way)

COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here’s what that means (and what we’ve learned along the way)

By Simon Nicholas Williams// The Conversation.com World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID disease management. This may not change too much practically. COVID will still have pandemic status, and countries […]

Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.

Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S.

Photo Editorial credit: Whitney Welshimer BY Ruby Mendenhall and Loren Henderson Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America. In the U.S., Black people are likelier than white people to reside in impoverished, racially segregated communities with high […]

Vanessa Cárdenas Reacts to Sweeping Biden Administration Announcements on Regional Migration

Vanessa Cárdenas Reacts to Sweeping Biden Administration Announcements on Regional Migration

Editorial photo credit: Mike Hardiman Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the Biden administration’s “sweeping new actions to manage regional migration,” announced yesterday: “We welcome the Biden’s administration’s announcement to expand legal pathways, create new regional refugee processing centers, and expand family reunification […]