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Each year, Manhattan’s 26th Precinct police department, the West Harlem Development Corporation and Manhattan Community Board 9 join forces to host the ‘Back 2 School” block party on 125th Street and Old Broadway in Harlem, NYC. The event is usually a huge success as it provides a much needed day of fun and distribution of key resources to West Harlem residents. What most people do not know is that the event is made possible due to the behind-the scenes efforts of many groups who use their connections to collect school supplies that fill the backpacks given to youth at the block party. Columbia University’s Office of Public Safety…
On Tuesday, more than a handful of anti-gun violence groups from the Cure Violence Global movment met in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to denounce a mass shooting that took place less than 48 hours earlier. The shooting, which happened outside of the Elanor Roosevelt Houses…
This past Friday, the power of community and mutual aid was on full display at the Bronx Terminal Market. Hundreds of people lined up and waited in 40-degree weather to receive brand new winter coats handed out at a coat giveaway event organized by Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner of the 77th district, in partnership with the Bronx Terminal Market and New York Cares…
Almost week after the unsolicited murder of Casey Goodson by Franklin County Sheriff's Office deputy Jason Meade, protesters took to the streets in New York City and called out the police violence that continues to plague the Black community.