Verizon workers wearing red and clutching signs swarmed the outside of the company’s office in downtown Brooklyn starting at six a.m. this morning, the start of a strike across the East Coast involving nearly forty thousand workers. Verizon, the Communication Workers of America (CWA), and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have apparently reached a […]
It took two years, two gatherings of some-190 bishops from around the world, and 264 pages for Pope Francis to release a historic declaration urging clergy around the world to welcome gay, divorced, and single-parent Catholics into the fold. The declaration, which came in the form of an apostolic exhortation released Friday morning, lays out […]
The U.S. is returning a 70-million-year-old dinosaur head, along with other fossils, to Mongolia
The man accused of killing a Bronx shelter director refuses a court appearance
Preparers connect low-income clients with checks from Uncle Sam at a free prep center in the South Bronx
After their public launch, the city’s first wifi kiosks are (sort of) up and running.
A Bronx art center asks how it can create space for a group that needs it
SoJourner McCauley is part of LGBTQ and black history in the Bronx. She looks back at progress made and ahead and what still needs to be done
Brett Scudder is a one-man band for mental health support, particularly for young black men in the Bronx.
