Local Voices

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By: Councilmember Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. The statistics on intimate partner violence (IPV) are harrowing. The CDC reports that one in four adult women and one in seven men report being the victim of IPV in their lifetime.

We are tired of empty rhetoric and an ineffective response to ongoing violence and escalating trauma in our neighborhood.

Breonna Taylor is the latest victim of an enduring legacy of American racialism.  

Failures by the Mayor and Governor to adequately work with the community, or hear from its leaders, have helped create the tense and untenable moment in which we find ourselves.

The Mayor’s response to schools reopening is simply unacceptable

By: Owen Brown Heather Ellis was sentenced to 15 years for switching lines at a Kennett, Missouri, Walmart. Crystal Mason was sentenced to 5 (five) years for voting when she was still being penalized for tax evasion.

"In no aspect of life is systemic racism in healthcare more agonizing than in regards to maternal care."

Even queens are not protected from being seen as a maybe-criminal outsiders, if they’re Black and living in deracinating Bed-Stuy.

The Art of Seeing by Michael Milton In perilous times, our deepest human impulse is to draw close to each other—the very thing we've been told not to do in the wake of COVID-19.