Category: Featured News, Local News, Politics
Juanita Perez Williams Hires Former Cuomo, Clinton Communications Strategist
By Staff – Democratic mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams has added communications strategist Peter Kauffmann to her...
Waters, Morial, Sanders Push “Black Wealth 2020″ as ‘Urgent’ Movement Spreads
By Hazel Trice Edney – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Black Wealth 2020, a new movement aiming to change the course of...
Thousands of Celebrities, Luminaries and Ordinary People Bid Dick Gregory Farewell
By Barrington Salmon – (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Several thousand mourners packed into a Landover, Md. church listened as...
Bias Against Hiring African-Americans Hasn’t Budged
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Rates of discrimination against African Americans in field experiments of hiring did not decline from 1990 to...
City: No Blue-Green Algae Found in Syracuse Water Systems
By Staff – The city has announced that testing conducted by the city of Syracuse Department of Water showed there was no...
Former St. Louis Police Officer Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Black Man
By Staff – A former St. Louis police officer was cleared of first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a black man...
New Census Data Ranks Syracuse As 13th Worst American City For Poverty
On Thursday, September 14, the Census Bureau reported that, while poverty rates have improved across the United States, the poverty rate in...
Political Advocacy Group to Host Launch Party and Fundraiser
By Staff – Uplift Syracuse, a progressive political advocacy group, will host a launch party and fundraiser Thursday, Sept....
New York State AG Issues Consumer Alert After Equifax Breach
By Staff – New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued a consumer alert following the report that Equifax...
U.S. Department of Justice Won’t Charge Officers in Freddie Gray Case
By Staff – The U.S. Department of Justice will not bring charges against six Baltimore, Maryland officers who were involved...
