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04/15/2025

The MTA wants to be able to hire workers who can replace and/or maintain segments of the MTA system that have been in use for decades and are now degrading. They want to use $6 billion from the planned budget to get ahead of what they call the “decay curve.”

David Solimon, who leads MTA Facility Groups and Readiness, told those in the meeting about necessary repairs to interior staircases and platform barriers, upgrading signal systems, and overhauling other structural defects. The MTA’s plan also calls for purchasing new trains and electric buses, and installing more elevators.

If the MTA gets full funding for its proposed $68.4 billion 2025–29 Capital Plan, it will hire up to 300 new workers.

04/15/2025

As the current chair of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley thought it was wise to address the bloc at the weekend about the perils of across-the-board tariffs announced recently by the Trump administration, arguing that these latest measures might well be one too many burdens for the region to bear.

The average Caricom member state was slapped with a 10% tax increase by the Trump administration, except bloc headquarters Guyana, which exports hundreds of millions of dollars in crude oil to the U.S. in addition to rice, rum, fish, and shrimp, among other products. The region’s largest and most resource-rich member state ended up with a 38% calculation rate that left authorities astonished.

From the recent announcement by Trump himself, the average Caricom member state was slapped with a 10% tax increase, except bloc.

04/15/2025

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04/15/2025

BOOK REVIEW: “Triumph in the Trenches (Volume 2): The Green Book for Black Professionals” is a comforting new book of essays that will offer support to readers who may not realize the impact of the stresses they encounter in their everyday work environments. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4lxYOBX

04/15/2025

PARTNERED CONTENT: The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Columbia Climate School, Con Edison, and Small Business Administration, cordially invites you to its 6th bi-annual Climate & Environmental Justice Conference. In celebration of Earth Day, this pre-Earth Day conference addresses the most important health related issues that arise from climate change and the disproportionate impact on the physical and mental health of people and communities of color.

The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Columbia Climate School, Con Edison, and Small Business Administration, cordially invites you to its 6th bi-annual Climate & Environmental Justice Conference.

04/15/2025

“A Streetcar Named Desire” is the classic Tennessee Williams' story of Blanche DuBois who comes to visit her sister Stella and her sister’s brute of a husband, Stanley, in the Quarters in . It is a story of mental illness, desperation, abuse, and so much more. The classic story just had a very interesting presentation at the Harvey Theatre of in Brooklyn, as it was done with barely any set, but somehow managed to work.

"A Streetcar Named Desire" had a very interesting presentation at the Harvey Theatre of BAM in Brooklyn, as it was done with barely any set.

04/15/2025

Windswept and remote, set in the cattle-rustling lands of ’s northwest, was never meant to be permanently settled.

It became one of Africa’s most famous refugee camps by accident as people escaping calamity in countries like , and poured in.

More than three decades after its first tents appeared in 1992, Kakuma houses 300,000 refugees. Many rely on aid to survive. Some recently clashed with police over shrinking food rations and support. United Nations

KAKUMA, Kenya (AP) — Windswept and remote, set in the cattle-rustling lands of Kenya's northwest, Kakuma was never meant to be permanently settled.

04/15/2025

In the 1980s, it was a death sentence. Now, with advancements in medicine, living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) doesn’t mean your life will end. Prevention efforts show improvements in infection rates, with a 12% drop between 2018 to 2022. CDC

the rates of HIV infection are increasing in certain regions and communities. And it doesn’t help that stigma, misinformation, and shame continue to burden Black folks who are overwhelmingly vulnerable to the virus.

04/15/2025

Can a new dog learn old tricks? Surging mayoral candidate Zohran Kwame Mamdani hoped so when he announced his ambitious public safety plan on Tuesday, April 1. His vision centers around establishing a new branch of government called the , which would enlist civilian social services to handle certain responsibilities — like responding to mental health calls — currently tasked to the .

Surging mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani hoped so when he announced his ambitious public safety plan last Tuesday, April 1.

04/14/2025

EDITORIAL: Literal signs of the times against government oppression were abundant from coast to coast on Saturday, each one of them denoting a message of resistance and defiance of Trump’s edicts as well as his repressive and often unconstitutional policies. “Hand Off Social Security,” “Don’t be a chicken in the coup,” “Musk Must Go!” “No Kings, No Oligarchs” “Trump, Putin’s Chump” and “Elon and the Felon” were just a sample of the outrage on the posters hoisted by protesters.

Literal signs of the times against government oppression were abundant on Saturday denoting a message of resistance and defiance of Trump.

04/14/2025

Chisa Hutchinson is a brilliant, brave writer who writes plays that call out racists in brutally honest ways. In her play “Amerikin” you get to see the side of this society that is full of hate, stupidity, and deliberate persecution for people who have done nothing to them.

In the play “Amerikin” you get to see the side of this society that is full of hate, stupidity, and deliberate persecution.

04/14/2025

Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams is now an Independent candidate to keep his position. At a mayoral forum at the National Action Network's national convention, Adams said he would "fight any White House that is not going to benefit our city."

Earlier this month, a federal judge moved to dismiss Adam's corruption case. His administration have been under intense scrutiny from federal Manhattan prosecutors because of alleged fraud in his 2021 mayoral campaign and potential connections to the Turkish government. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4jwYamA

04/14/2025

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04/14/2025

SPORTS: Taleah Washington, a graduate student guard at Wagner College in Staten Island, tied an NCAA record for the second most assists in a women’s game with 22. To think, she almost didn’t come to Wagner. After completing her bachelor’s degree in psychology and human services at Old Dominion, Washington felt she’d accomplished her goal of being the first person in her family to graduate from college.

“I was so ready to get into coaching and get into my big girl job,” Washington recalled. “I ended up talking to Coach T (Wagner coach Terrell Coburn) and he said I could get a master’s and still play. I took that leap of faith.”

Taleah Washington, a graduate student guard at Wagner College, tied an NCAA record for the second most assists in a women’s game.

04/14/2025

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04/14/2025

OP-ED: "Paul Robeson, who died in 1976, would have been 127 years old on April 9. Few citizens were as gifted, talented, and outspoken against the injustices ordinary folks faced than Robeson. When the 'Red Scare' and McCarthyism rained persecution down on the land, particularly for those daring to voice militant opposition to state power, Robeson was undaunted and bravely endured the wave of repression." - Herb Boyd

Paul Robeson, who died in 1976, would have been 127 years old on April 9. Few citizens were as outspoken against the injustices.

04/14/2025

Tomorrow (April 15) is the deadline to file taxes. The city’s property tax lien sale puts many homeowners at risk of losing their homes because it publicizes outstanding tax and sewer debts, particularly for Black and Brown individuals, seniors, and veterans. The city’s Department of Finance (DOF) recently posted the 2025 property tax lien list for all five boroughs — a first since 2021. The next lien sale is scheduled for May 20. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4lvrCem