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Human Rights Lawyer Joins LI Latino Nonprofit
Andrew Strong (Photo by Johnette Howard via The East Hampton Star) Back when Andrew Strong worked as a human rights lawyer based in the Netherlands, he said he felt “a bit self-conscious” as an...
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Brooklyn Parents of Shooting Victims Cope Together
Alice Mckay wearing a shirt with a photo of her 21-year-old son Kameron who was fatally shot in Brownsville almost five years ago. (Photo via Amsterdam News) For Brooklyn parents struggling to cope...
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Marking 15 Years of Man Up! and Remembering Daesean Hill
Man Up! celebrating 15 years (Photo by Lem Peterkin via Amsterdam News) As the anti-violence and community activism organization Man Up! celebrates 15 years of serving as peacekeepers and offering...
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A Space for Resistance at ‘Mayday’
(Photo courtesy Mayday Space/Facebook via BK Reader) Since 2014, Mayday Space in Bushwick has provided a center for people to collaborate, learn, create art and build projects with the purpose of...
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Services for Korean Seniors, and More, from KCS
The new executive director of Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Linda Lee, at the office of the KCS Bayside center. (Photo courtesy KCS via Korea Daily) [Editor’s note: The story has...
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Muslim Community Patrol Forms in Brooklyn
Co-founders Sami Uddin Razi (left) and Noor Rabah (right), and volunteer Younis Elsallaj (middle). (Photo by Zainab Iqbal via Bklyner) In November, a group of Sunset Park residents started Muslim...
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For Mexican Immigrants, Alcoholism is Yet Another Hazard
Hispanic youths participating in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in East Harlem. (Photo by Mariela Lombard via El Diario) (…) Jail time, a feeling of defeat, empty pockets, an emaciated body and a liver...
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Johnson Proposes ‘More Specialized High Schools’
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson (center left) and Council member Paul Vallone (center right) with Korean organization leaders including Korean American Parents Association of Greater New York...
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Online Campaign Recruits Volunteer Lawyers for Immigrants
Alejandra Silva-Exias is one of the volunteer attorneys who joined Catholic Charities’ state-backed program. (Photo via El Diario) Even though the state and city of New York have invested over $40...
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South Asian Nonprofit Cheers Withdrawal of Amazon
Chhaya Community Development Corporation of Queens at a rally opposing the deal with Amazon to build its second headquarters in Queens, NY. Seen in photo, Executive Director Annetta Seecharan, right,...
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