A“Seasoned, Experienced And Knowledgeable Leader” Who Will Put Racial Equity At The Forefront Of The Nation’s Housing Policies “We need to make the dream of homeownership — and the security and wealth creation that comes with it — a reality for more Americans. That will require us to end discriminatory practices in the housing market, and ensure that our fair housing rules are doing what they are supposed to do: opening the door for families, especially families of color who

Geraldine Winifred Elvy King, was born August 11, 1947 to Lurlene Civille and Lester Elvy. She passed away on Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Orlando, Florida. Geri, as she was affectionately called, attended Olinville Junior High School, now the Richard Green school in the Bronx. She graduated from Evander Childs High School in the Williamsburg section of the Bronx in 1966. Geri had a fawned love of nursing. After graduating from high school Evander High School, she attended Br

From the red clay of Red Level, Alabama with a population of less than 500 and one traffic light, came Eugene Henry Webb, the second of three sons and we know what middle children are like! Life’s journey took him 169 miles north to the steel city with the statute of Vulcan… Birmingham, here, he finished high school and started college and a family including two daughters. First came Barbara, who Brenda later joined. Then it was on to California where he rode the rails as a

What do you get when lobbyists and developers fund elected officials and candidates for office? “A city that doesn’t work.” This is nothing new in Mount Vernon, and the game plan will never change until we decide as a community to change it. Greg LeRoy, Executive Director of Good Jobs First, a Washington, DC-based resource on accountable development, said it best, “The big picture is it’s a very corporate-dominated process in which the people that have the power, who really c

People who care about equal justice under the law should be very happy about President Joe Biden’s first set of judicial nominees. I am especially excited about the three outstanding Black women that President Biden nominated to the circuit courts—the appeals court level just below the U.S. Supreme Court. You will soon be hearing more about all these highly credentialed and accomplished women: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, and Tiffany Cunningham. Biden is fu

By U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC-6) It has been a little more than a year since COVID-19 was officially discovered within the boundaries of the United States. It has been devastating to communities of color. The statistics are sobering. Blacks represent only 13-percent of the U.S. population, but account for nearly 24-percent of age-adjusted COVID-19 deaths. In January, nine percent of Black workers or 1.8 million people in our communities were unemployed. One in fi

Patriarchy baffles me as much as white supremacy does. How do the men, birthed by women, consider us inferior? When we raise our voices, we are irrational or hysterical. When we are emphatic, we are hostile. According to former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, we talk too much in meetings when we talk. Mori offered this weak excuse when questioned about the scarcity of women on the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, which he chairs. Later, the 83-year-old Mori apo

It is an established fact that public policy is the result of ideas that start with people, who create interest groups. Interest groups usually form on both sides of an issue, and issues give birth to proposed rules and potential laws that reflect the prevailing views growing out of the initial issues with its pros and cons. The United States Constitution never provided for political parties as we know them today. The party system we have today associated with our government