Advocates seek Bronx support for “How Many Stops Act”
Bronx social justice organizations hosted a town hall on Dec. 5 to raise support for the proposed “How Many Stops Act,” to increase transparency around policing in New York City,…
Residents vote on ways to spend “the People’s Money”
On Thursday, teams of volunteers spread out across the South Bronx to ask a simple question: How would you spend $5 million to help your neighborhood? The volunteers were collecting…
The Bronx roars for housing rights
“Whose Bronx?” “Our Bronx!” “Whose Bronx?” “Our Bronx!” The chant repeated six times, with rising decibels each time, from the 160 residents seated in the BronxWorks gym last week for…
At a model dispensary, the first glimmer of a green gold rush
Bronx residents can get their first look at a legal cannabis store this weekend. Set up in the historic Bronx Post Office on the Grand Concourse, the model dispensary has…
Black law students, professionals encouraged by Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson: “I see myself”
As Tatiana Hyman sat waiting for one of her last interviews to become editor in chief for the Fordham Law Review last year, her leg bouncing up and down nervously,…
Mayoral hopeful Donovan talks reforms with criminal justice activists
Calls to defund the police, best approaches to gun violence and whether police should be in city schools headed the discussion Wednesday at a roundtable on criminal justice reform hosted…
Disabled people hope accommodations will be seen in new light, post pandemic
When Elspeth Slayter, a former social worker at Bronx Defenders in Mott Haven, landed a job teaching social work and disability practice elsewhere, her new supervisor was not accommodating. She…