The Greene family has lost their years-long struggle to keep their house from foreclosure and were swept into a scam.

It’s almost that time of year again. New York City’s voters will be using Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) to determine their new city leaders.

The United Nation’s Mandela Laws defines solitary confinement as 22 hours or more a day “without meaningful human contact.”

Tulsa mayor Monroe Nichols is planning to award the city $105m to address the destruction in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921.

Urban Resource Institute rolled out an Economic Empowerment Program in the Big Apple in 2018, which now serves 24 shelters.

Husein Yatabarry, 32, is Muslim Community Network’s (MCN) Executive Director –– the youngest and first Black American to hold the position.

The U.S. government welcomed white Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch and German colonizers who enforced South Africa’s apartheid regime.

If American life is a river, relief from poverty and strife sits atop one of its slippery banks, and the American Dream sits safely back from its edge.

Restorative justice is a process that involves repairing harms between victims and offenders, rather than simply or only punishing offenders.

Gun violence victims are left with grief, trauma… and bills. For many, compensation comes too late – or never at all.

Critics for reinstating the Stock Transfer Tax fear the bill will drive the city’s financial heart toward other states, just as they did in 1905.

Our two-part series examines the impact of schools’ zero-tolerance response to students carrying guns on campus.

Bronx Preparatory Charter welcomed Kevin Richardson of the Exonerated Five on campus for a student forum on Friday, Feb. 7.

The “Scandal” creator has resigned from the Kennedy Center board, while the “Insecure” creator canceled her sold-out event.

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In early August of 1973, a short article titled “Judge Rules Steamfitters Must Admit Minorities” ran on page six of the Amsterdam News.

“It has been really tough. In the beginning, I trusted that NYCHA would understand that I’m a woman and that I was threatened.

The city’s scientists have spent years taking on some of the city’s biggest climate issues. Here’s some of what they say.

Many gun violence survivors struggle to find employment post-injury. America’s safety net is failing to catch them.

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The city’s scientists have spent years taking on some of the city’s biggest climate issues. Here’s some of what they say.

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President Joe Biden could not spare Marcellus Williams from being executed by the state of Missouri last month.

Just as the fight for freedom for Black Americans did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation or passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Asian Americans have been increasingly used as a wedge to stoke infighting among communities of color. And there’s plenty of money behind it.

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