Month: April 2025

Following demonstrations by hundreds of union supporters, political pressure from elected officials, and multiple rounds of tense negotiations, District Council 37 (DC 37), Local 1502 and the Brooklyn Museum have reached an agreement that avoids layoffs of nearly 50 workers. DC 37 is New York City's largest public employee union, with 150,000 members and 89,000 retirees. It said the agreement allows for a voluntary separation package or retirement with an […]

Leaders from several Eastern Caribbean countries, which raise hundreds of millions in state revenues by selling passports and local citizenship to foreigners, are meeting in an emergency session in Antigua this week amid pressure from Western nations to improve transparency or to scrap such programs altogether. With the collapse of banana and other exports to Europe and threats to slap a 10 % tariff on exports to the US, the […]

Eight Democratic candidates for the Mayoral race made their case for a Black Agenda for New York at the Medgar Evers College on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 in front of a packed hall. Dr. Patricia Ramsey, President of Medgar Evers College speaking at the opening said, "The views expressed by these candidates in this forum are their own and not necessarily reflect the view or opinions of  Medgar Evers College." […]

There were several protests during the Democratic Mayoral Forum on the Black Agenda at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Wednesday, April 23. At the beginning one protestor was questioning why there was only eight candidates and not nine participating in the event and called for the ninth person to be included. The protestor was later removed by security. Later another protestor crashed the stage just as Scott Stringer took […]

When I think of Pope Francis, the first thoughts that come to mind are: a holy man, a humble man, and a human being. A holy man: To be holy in the eyes of God is to be like God, who loves all the human beings He created. Humble because Pope Francis believed we are all equal in the eyes of God, and that he was no more entitled or […]

Methodists in the Brooklyn Downtown South Cooperative Parish of the United Methodist Church (UMC), otherwise known as Bold United Soul Seekers (BUSS), heard the “Seven Last Words of Christ” in a three-hour worship service at St. Marks United Methodist Church in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Good Friday, March 18. Preachers from Ghana Wesley, Vanderveer Park, Fenimore Street, St. Mark’s, St. Paul’s, and Kings Highway UMCs delivered the message during the perennial […]