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The inaugural year for the New York Amsterdam News Readers Choice Awards is underway. We invite everyone in the community to vote and celebrate the businesses that make our area unique.

See more at amsterdamnews.com/readerschoice.

Former Assemblyman Michael Blake calls for more NYCHA funding as he challenges Torres in primary Former Bronx Assemblymember Michael Blake calls for more funding for NYCHA as he faces Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres in the primaries.

Federal funding cuts to New York’s already beleaguered public housing system last year may leave the city’s NYCHA buildings in an even more dire state. So congressional candidates are loudly proclaiming that not nearly enough is being done about as the June primaries approach. #newyorkcity #nyc

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Closing the Gap: Local leaders tackle Black maternal health crisis In an effort to raise awareness, the heads of health departments and public hospitals hosted a panel during Black Maternal Health Week.

Black parents in the U.S. continue to face stark racial disparities when it comes to maternal health. To raise awareness, the heads of the city and state’s #health departments and public hospitals hosted a panel during Black Maternal Health Week. #nycmom

imagine making up new problems to have in the year of our lord 2026

If you’re my husband, and you kill me l, you’re no longer my husband.

You’re my killer.

Killer is your permanent relationship title that nothing can undo.

The Public Health Approach to Prevent Gun Violence | Center for Gun Violence Solutions This approach brings together a range of experts across sectors—including researchers, advocates, legislators, community-based organizations, and others—in a common effort to develop, evaluate, and…

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Temperature Check: After 100 days are Black New Yorkers still feeling NYC Mayor Mamdani? After his first 100 days, is Mayor Zohran Mamdani living up to promises made to the Black voters who helped put him in office?

POLITICS: At just over 100 days into his first term, Mayor Zohran Kwame #Mamdani has generally garnered positive reviews. But the question remains, is he living up to promises made to the Black voters who helped put him in office?

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Today we honor NBA legend and NYC native Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on his birthday!

Citizen-Soldiers – not “Warriors” In a recent prepared statement by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in which he cut the War Department’s ties and affiliation with his alma mater, Harvard University, he made s…

New guest post up on the ‘ol blog. Grateful for people who have the energy to write when I do not

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What Learning to Save Lives Taught Me About Saving Journalism

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Black-led nonprofits didn't see the lasting funding boosts promised after 2020's racial reckoning New research released Tuesday shows that such financial gains for many Black-led nonprofits were short-lived, if they happened at all.

New research reveals that financial gains for many Black-led nonprofits after George Floyd’s murder were short-lived.

If you're going to #ijf26 and would like to learn more at the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford please drop me a line! I'd love to talk to you about my fellowship experience and what you need to know in order to apply.

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If you’re in L.A., I’d love to be in community w you at Reparations Club on June 26. Join my WSSU classmate/fellow journalist Tim Pulliam as we build conversation around my debut book, The Price of Exclusion. Tickets are available here (full tour will drop soon!): www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...

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I mean, I just generated six hallucinations about me in as many minutes via Googles AI Overview, you can tell your bosses that podcast is full of shit

posting this shit when you’re owned by a billionaire is basically a recruitment ad for socialism

Inaugural Deputy Mayor of Community Safety Renita Francois envisions ‘People’s Department’ Renita Francois will shape Mayor Mamdani’s campaign pledge to shift the city away from defaulting to police on mental health calls.

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your could ask AI to help you brainstorm ideas for novels or you could do it the old fashioned way: long walks, post it notes, dreams, daydreams, conversations with other writers, staring at the wall, free-writing, visual arts, meditating, lots of reading, & living a full life.

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In her reelection bid, Gov. Kathy Hochul selected Adrienne Adams as her running mate, and in a new interview with the AmNews, she says she feels comfortable, ready, and excited.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4lOL7z2 

Ajah Hawley-Alexander becomes a research leader on student-athletes and NIL Ajah Hawley-Alexander, a clinical lecturer in the Media & Strategic Communication Department of Iona University, continues her research.

Ajah Hawley-Alexander, a clinical lecturer in the Media & Strategic Communication Department of Iona University, continues her research and advocacy for student-athletes.

In NYC? Where will you be the night of Tuesday, 3/31? We'll tell you: Join @jeffsomers.bsky.social & the @mysterywriters.bsky.social NYC chapter for Reading & Mingling in Soho.

Find out more: links.ruadanbooks.com/MWANYC

It's a good alibi; not at all Lamp behavior.

#BookSky #ThrillerSky #NewYork

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