Two Kyrgyzstani girl in traditional clothing. Photo courtesy of The Borgen Project. Education breeds confidence and encourages young girls to pursue opportunities otherwise not available to them, which is one…
Young lesbian woman with face paint at an LGBTQ+ community center in Accra, Ghana. Photo courtesy of Human Rights Watch. Ghana is a leader in terms of West African democracy…
The First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights opened their doors this past Saturday, March 23 for a tenant town hall meeting discussing universal rent control. The meeting, organized by the Housing Justice For All coalition, outlined nine points they want state legislators to pay attention to come June 15 when the state’s current rent laws are set to expire.
President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget proposal calls for major reductions in spending on Medicare and Medicaid, although he promised not to cut the programs as a candidate in 2016.…
Paul Manafort, the well-connected political consultant targeted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was convicted this Thursday on eight felony charges resulting in 47 months in prison. In a world…
International Women’s Day in Spain is celebrated with the “Huelga Feminista” (Women’s Strike). Last year, in March, women took to the streets for the first time in this strike…
The past few weeks have seen more candidates jump into the increasingly crowded competition for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper launched his campaign…
A few weeks ago, I stepped into an Uber in Los Angeles, California. We quickly hit our first red light. Somehow, this silence was the perfect justification for my…
Last week, Michael Cohen, former personal attorney to President Trump, testified in front of the House Oversight and Reform Committee. According to the New York Times, Cohen testified on Trump’s misbehavior and poor character by saying he has lied in the past about real estate deals and paying off an adult film actress. The testimony also included Cohen stating that Trump’s racism is even worse when in private meetings and evidence such as the $35,000 personal check from Trump as reimbursement of the hush money used to pay off his mistress. Cohen has worked with the Trump Organisation since 2007 as legal counsel, as reported by CNN, and before that was a New York attorney who bought apartments in Trump’s buildings and lobbied for Trump when other residents were in dispute with him.
Valentine’s Day fell on a Thursday this year. Although most New Yorkers had plans to celebrate after work, a conference room in Downtown Brooklyn was buzzing with excitement and it was barely two o’clock in the afternoon. A staff member of New York Communities for Change had just interrupted an ordinary meeting to inform everyone that Amazon was pulling out of the deal to bring half of their second headquarters to Long Island City, Queens. The news broke on Twitter, but soon all the major media platforms had confirmed the news. This was an enormous victory for NYCC, one of the grassroots organisations that vehemently opposed the deal. It was also a victory for Jonathan Westin, NYCC’s executive director, who stood among his staff smiling, in disbelief.