Local Voices

Life Lessons from C-Suite hosted by Paypal and produced by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, with featured speaker Jennifer Risi, Worldwide Chief Communications Officer at Ogilvy. The Paypal offices were the perfect location for this event.

Photo: Office of Council Member Williams By City Councilmember Jumaane D.

By Kim Hill, Bed-Stuy resident "I'm gonna lay down my burdens... down by the riverside, and I ain't gonna study war no more..." My 7-year-old son was singing this during his evening bath time.

Everyone was welcome to his table. Michoel was always up for socializing. It was never too late. He was never too tired. In the last years of his life, he was still making friends.

Did the fashion stylist really think it was best to put that sweatshirt on the Black model? By Sonya Magett H&M, the second largest retailer in the world, had to temporarily close their South Africa stores after at least six locations were damage

On January 1, 2018, I became an honorary Polar Bear.

It's really the most wonderful time of the year — for me! The holidays are here! Grammarly says that "wonderful" is an overused word, but, who cares — it just shows people are overwhelmingly happy! It's also the most beautiful time of the

Artists Sui Park/Alexandra Limpert...and Chashama space I'm a longtime fan of sculpture work, from the process of creating the work to the experience of seeing the work on exhibit.

We are all in this together, no matter how we wish to be "other than." "The Art of Seeing," by Michael Milton I am, by most accounts, an affable guy. I'm also a big guy: Six feet four inches, weighing in at about two hundred and twenty pounds.

From presidents past we have, "we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." From presidents past we have, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.