THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY PRESS

While many are watching 47 out of the 50 States propose and enact Voter Suppression Laws, the question becomes one of what can we as individuals do to counter such attacks against us? First we must acknowledge the real agenda of those hiding behind the Republican Party’s control of state legislatures, embracing Donald Trump’s lie that the election was stolen. The reality is that conservative white republicans are engaged in attempts to recreate the conditions that existed by

“Although Black schools were indeed commonly lacking in facilities and funding, some evidence suggests that the environment of the segregated school had affective traits, institutional policies, and community support that helped Black children learn in spite of the neglect their schools received from White school boards,” Vanessa Siddle Walker, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies at Emory College of Arts and Sciences, wrote in her 1996 b

Deemed a singular sensation with boundless enthusiasm by a former colleague, William T. Broadnax, Jr. was born on February 18, 1935 in Phenix City, Alabama. He was the second of three children born to the union of Annie Mae and William T. Broadnax, Sr. On Monday, May 17, 2021, just before midnight, God dispatched his angels to escort our “Bill” to his heavenly home where he would be reunited not only with his ancestors, but, also with his sister, Della Pearl; his eldest niece

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Westchester Alumnae Chapter's Social Action Committee, in partnership with the NAACP White Plains/Greenburgh Education Committee, invites you to join us for a thought-provoking discussion on Education and Justice: Addressing Racism, Cyberbullying and the Inequities in Our School Communities. Education Week reports that since school has gone virtual, classrooms around the country have been interrupted by "Zoomraiders" who shout obscenities

As of this writing, more than 200 Palestinians and 10 Israelis have been killed in the conflict in Gaza. A few days before the conflict began, the Biden Administration approved a $735 million weapons sale to Israel. With this power waning, Israel’s scandal-plagued prime minister is likely to say that Israel needs weapons to defend itself against Hamas. But the imbalance in the casualties suggests that Israel is more likely to have been the aggressor than the victim. Israel

The Census Bureau recently reported that the U.S. experienced its second-lowest population growth in its history. The Great Depression of 1929-39 outpaced the 2010-20 population decline. Over the past decade, there have been fewer births, people are living longer, immigration policies have changed, and over 585,000 deaths have been reported in the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic upended our lives in late 2019. When combined, these events were cited as contributors to the p

By Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris Young Thug and Gunna reunited a few families on Friday, April 23 as they posted bail for more than 30 inmates who were detained in Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail. Most of the detainees were being held on minor charges but couldn’t post bond. “This is where we are from. We just woke up and went to the jail with the lawyer and DAs and the prosecutors, the bonding companies, and just got as many people as we can out. If they did the crime, then they ca

Moments before three guilty verdicts in the trial of disgraced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin came down and exaltation erupted across the country, in Columbus, Ohio 16-year old Ma’Khia Bryant was fighting for her life. It only took seconds for her to lose that fight. Millions have watched the video of Ma’Khia being shot four times outside of the foster home where she lived, by Columbus police officer Nicholas Reardon on April 20. From the time Reardon and oth