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Home Foreclosure Specialist Aims to Take Fight For Housing & Racial Justice from Astoria to Albany
Zohran Mamdani is harnessing thousands of small-dollar donations and grassroots power ahead of June 23’s Democratic primary in the race to represent Assembly District 36.
Displaced Tenant Wants to Move Into the State Capitol
After Marcela Mitaynes’ family lost their apartment to a predatory landlord, she became a tenant organizer. 14 years later, she’s seeking to evict one of the State Assembly’s most powerful members and take his seat.
Samelys López: We Need Public Medicine for Public Health
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how broken healthcare is in the Bronx and all around the United States. Big…
CUNY Students Cope with COVID Fallout
As May came to a close, final exams were the least of Abrar Rahman’s worries. Rahman, a rising junior…
Amy Cooper Case Points To Need For Restorative Justice
While NY State legislature weighs a new law for false police reports, restorative justice experts say their approach “needs to be the default in most situations where harm occurs.”
The Ugly Schadenfreude of ‘Cops’
America’s long-running reality TV show has been canceled. What can we learn from its life and death?
Heastie-Controlled Slush Fund Props Up Embattled NY State Assembly Incumbents
Félix Ortiz, Walter Mosley, Joseph Lentol, Michael DenDekker and Cathy Nolan have all received $22,000 to $42,500 from a special account funded by Albany special interests.
In Lieu of a Puerto Rican Day Parade, Activists Rally to Defund the Police
Latino labor and faith leaders, educators and sixties-era revolutionaries led hundreds of people during a Latinx and African diaspora…
As Pandemic Continues, Brooklynites Have a Chance to Elect a Socialist Nurse
Meet Phara Souffrant Forrest.
Primary Primer: A Voter’s Guide to Some of the Most Hotly Contested Races on the NY Ballot
New York is a one-party city where elections are almost always determined in the Democratic primary. Until 2018 these…