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Nuyorican Poets Café Brings NYC Creatives Together for Black History Month

March 11, 2022 by kanita tariq

Nuyorican Poets Cafe before doors open.

On Feb. 2, doors opened at the Nuyorican Poets Café at 9:30 p.m. The small crowd congregated outside filed into the intimate, warehouse-style venue, finding their seats as the lights dimmed and the live band on stage played a rhythmic tune. The All THAT! Open Mic Night occurs on the first Wednesday of every month […]

Filed Under: Social Justice, Uncategorized Tagged With: Arts, east village, New York City, Open Mic Night, Poetry, Slam Poetry

NYC LGBTQ+ community gathers for LGBTQ+ Ukrainians at Stonewall Inn

March 1, 2022 by Jasmine Venet

On Saturday, a crowd of around 100 people donning colorful flower crowns and waving bright blue and yellow flags gathered at Stonewall Inn in support of Ukraine and its LGBTQ+ community in the wake of Russia’s invasion. The group, many of whom held up cardboard signs, some reading “queer love stops Putin” and “404 NATO […]

Filed Under: Social Justice, Ukraine Tagged With: LGBTQ+ community, Stonewall Inn, ukraine protest

LGBTQ Adults Condemn Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

February 28, 2022 by Grace Symes

Edward Martí Kring knew from a young age that he was different, but he couldn’t say the word gay. To him, gay was synonymous with bad, and he knew he was a good person. It wasn’t until he joined a confidential LGBTQ club at his Florida high school that he started to change his opinion […]

Filed Under: Politics, Social Justice Tagged With: Don't Say Gay, Florida, LGBT, politics

One Million Voices Rally: A fight for immigrant suffrage

January 26, 2022 by Caroline Coyer

Listen to this story as it appeared on WNYU here. Immigrant New Yorkers deserve a voice in their city. A super-majority has been secured on Introduction 1867, which would expand the right to vote in municipal elections to immigrant New Yorkers with legal permanent resident status or work authorization. To celebrate this achievement, on June […]

Filed Under: COVID-19 Pandemic, Politics, Social Justice, Video

The Queer Experience in Black Barbershops

May 27, 2021 by Calen Razor

Calen Barbeshop

By Calen Razor This piece takes a look at the experience for many Black queer people inside Black barbershops.

Filed Under: Multimedia, Social Justice, Video Tagged With: barbershop, gay, homophobia, new york, NYC, queer, toxic masculinity

Legalized Marijuana Has Arrived In New York, Many Awaiting New Rules

May 14, 2021 by Maria Sanz Bentivegna

New York officials have yet to roll out fresh regulations now that the state has joined more than a dozen others that have legalized marijuana and cannabis to help boost revenue. Andrew Rosner, the co-founder of HR Botanicals, a small farm located in Sullivan county New York that grows a species of marijuana known as […]

Filed Under: Politics, Social Justice

NYC Street Artists Mix Art and Activism

May 12, 2021 by Anusha Rathi

The summer of 2020 changed Andrea Acevedo’s art. The murder of George Floyd stirred something deep within her – standing amongst a crowd of hundreds of protesters in New York City, defending Black lives, surrounded by people dedicated to equality and the liberation of all oppressed people, she asked herself, “How can I help?”  And […]

Filed Under: COVID-19 Pandemic, Photo, Social Justice Tagged With: blm, COVID-19, Female Artists, NYC, Stop Asian Hate, Street Art

The WNBA’s History of Activism Has Been Overlooked

May 12, 2021 by Isabel Maschmedt

Is Gender The Reason? “The very act of being a female athlete is radical.”-Kavitha A. Davidson stated, a sports and society writer for the Athletic.  In 1996, the WNBA was born.  The league was established 47 years after the NBA. As the first professional sports league for women in the United States, the league has […]

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Sam Pollard: An Awe-Inspiring Figure Chronicling the Black Experience

May 12, 2021 by Nathan Hughes

Harlem-born Sam Pollard, a filmmaker and Oscar nominated editor, has spent his entire career chronicling the Black American experience.  Pollard, now a professor of film at New York University for the last 27 years, found his passion for movies by watching the works of Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Alfred Hitchcock. He credits them for […]

Filed Under: Social Justice Tagged With: film, NYU, sam pollard

How Will Reparations Move Forward In America?

May 12, 2021 by Aidan Taylor

Photo by Life Matters from Pexels

A bill that would advance the fight for reparations is moving up the legislative ladder in Congress, opening the door for a national conversation about how America will finally address reparations after 400 years of enslavement of African Americans.  Since slavery’s abolishment 150 years ago in the United States, a path to carrying out overdue […]

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