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Saturday, September 23, 2023
Get The Scoop On Why Cheryl Caddle Is Honored as a Woman Of Distinction By NYS Senator Leroy Comrie
Friday, September 22, 2023
Statement from Speaker Adrienne Adams and Criminal Justice Chair Carlina Rivera on the Deadline to Close Rikers
Statement from Speaker Adrienne Adams and Criminal Justice Chair Carlina Rivera on the Deadline to Close Rikers
NYC Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams |
“For decades, Rikers Island has cultivated a culture of brutal
violence and dysfunction, compelling the City Council to pass
legislation to end the humanitarian crisis in our city’s jails and
transition to a more effective and safer borough-based system. Today
marks four years to the day that New York City must close Rikers to
comply with the law.
Public safety demands that we remain on-track to
closing Rikers without delay. To achieve this goal, it is imperative
that Mayor Adams’ administration take responsibility for implementing
the law, including working collaboratively with stakeholders involved in
the criminal legal system to advance necessary progress.
NYC Council Criminal Justice Chair Carlina Rivera |
The City must make consistent investments in pretrial services, alternatives to incarceration, and re-entry services, while addressing unacceptable lengths of stay with the courts, district attorneys, and public defenders. The Council has taken recent actions as a contributing partner in these efforts by advancing increased mental health interventions and greater resources for supervised release programs, among others, but far more is needed.
“We cannot allow Rikers to continue undermining public safety and must continue the necessary work of implementing a more effective approach to public safety. The record deaths and continued violence, which endangers both staff and detained individuals, reaffirms the Council’s 2019 decision to bring this shameful chapter in the city’s history to an end and only emphasizes the urgency we must act with moving forward.”
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Get The Scoop On Why Nicki Minaj And Ice Spice's Version of the Barbie Song Is Lit In Areas of Culture And Society.
NEW Barbie Song Gets Lit
I liked all the Barbies growing up but my favorite Barbie was the blond haired blue eyed Barbie. I did really like to play with black Barbie's too and my dad wanted me to be proud of my culture.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Senator James Sanders Jr. and Nearly 70 Elected Officials Call on Governor Kathy Hochul to Sign Reparations Commission Bill
Senator James Sanders Jr., Chair of the Senate Banks Committee, Assemblymember Michaelle Solages, Chair of The New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, and nearly 70 elected officials from around the state signed a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul urging her to sign the reparations commission bill into law. The bill (S.1163-A/SANDERS Same as A.7691/Solages) would establish the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies.
This letter was delivered to Governor Hochul along with a list of numerous organizations and petitions with hundreds of signatures from individuals who support the bill and urge the Governor to sign the bill. Some of the organizations that support the bill include the following: New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus; New York State Council of Churches; The Black Institute; Churches United for Worldwide Action, Inc; NY Renews; New Economy Project; African American Redress Network and the NAACP Far Rockaway Branch.
Slavery remained legal in New York until 1827. And even after that, it remained closely tied to the institution when it continued to exist in southern states. There’s a real question of whether slavery would have been economically feasible without New York. New York provided insurance for the slave industry. New York bought much of the cotton. African Americans have been subjected to racial, economic, and institutional injustices in New York and around the nation throughout history.
The letter includes the following passage: “The history of chattel slavery and all of its successors including but not limited to, America apartheid (Jim Crow Era), and mass incarceration, is a history comprised of atrocities too brutal to fully comprehend. Not only were African American’s sold and bought as property, but African Americans in this nation have been lynched, beaten, wrongfully incarcerated, intentionally deprived of bare necessities, treated merely as second-class citizens, with very little action taken to provide an equitable society.”
This bill would create a commission tasked with studying the history of slavery and racial discrimination in New York and recommending possible reparation payments. The commission would look at more than just slavery. It would also examine the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery and discrimination on living people of African descent. The bill details the history of slavery within the United States and provides a particular focus on New York State’s profitable relationship with the slave industry. The bill details long-standing generational impacts of slavery on African Americans in New York including legal battles to secure basic civil rights for African Americans, New York State’s history of segregation, housing discrimination and redlining, unequal pay, voter suppression, and police bias and brutality.
Get The Southeast Queens Scoop On “Fall for Jazz with CTP” At The Jackson Room Jazz Club
"Fall For Jazz With CTP"
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Get The Scoop On Why NYS Senator James Sanders Jr. And Other NYS Legislators Call on President Joseph Biden to Declare a Climate Emergency
Nearly 60 New York State Legislators
Call on President Joseph Biden to
Declare a Climate Emergency
(New York, NY) Senator James Sanders Jr. and nearly 60 New York state legislators urge President Joseph Biden to declare a “Climate Emergency” under the National Emergencies Act. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a report this past March with a final warning that Earth is likely to cross a critical threshold for global warming within the next decade.
The initial victims, who also suffer the most, of climate change are people of color and the poorest. But over time, no one can escape the harm caused by climate change. New York suffered from record Canadian wildfires this summer which experts believe were made worse by climate change. Scientists predict New York will experience more severe storms and sea level rise causing major flooding due to climate change.
This letter was sent to President Biden ahead of the UN Ambition Summit which will be held September 20, 2023 in New York City. The letter calls on President Biden to announce at the UN Ambition Summit the United States’ commitment to eliminating fossil fuels and to declare a Climate Emergency. The Ambition Summit is in advance of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties (COP28), held from November 30 until December 12, 2023, in the United Emirates where global climate policy will be determined.
Here are some recent disturbing facts relating to climate change:
- Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center, estimated that the global temperatures in early July 2023 are the warmest probably going back at least 100,000 years.
- July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth according to the World Meteorological Organization.
- The Atlantic Ocean off Florida recorded 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit in July 2023, potentially a world record for hottest ocean temperature ever recorded in the world.
- Wildfires in Canada have burned 25 million acres through July in 2023, an area roughly the size of Kentucky, and have darkened the skies and polluted the air for millions of Americans, including New York state. This year has already eclipsed Canada’s previous annual record from 1989.
- The Maui wildfires are the deadliest in the United States in over a century.