Riverside Church

Civil Rights Organizers Ask: Where Do We Go From Here?

By Tess Owen on February 4, 2015 BlackLivesMatter, civil rights, NYPD, Riverside Church Manhattan, News, Politics & Policy

Civil Rights Organizers Ask: Where Do We Go From Here?

Older organizers and young activists gather to discuss ways to sustain the #BlackLivesMatter movement in New York.

Meet Riverside Church’s Unofficial Gardener

By Christine Chung on September 27, 2014 Elaine Thompson, garden, gardening, Harlem, National Jazz Museum of Harlem, Riverside Church, volunteer, volunteering Lens on New Yorkers, Manhattan

Meet Riverside Church’s Unofficial Gardener

A 73-year-old parishioner took over a messy plot in 2012, and it’s been a garden of blooms ever since.