THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY PRESS

YONKERS, N.Y. – Joe Kenner, President and CEO of the Greyston Foundation, has been awarded the Jerry Noyce Executive Health Champion Award by the Waconia, MN-based Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). Dedicated to identifying and sharing best practices that improve the health and well-being of employees, their families and communities, HERO is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 corporation established in 1997. The Jerry Noyce Executive Health Champion Award is awarded ann

Nyack, NY— August 24, 2021 — Identical twin lawyers, turn sauce-entrepreneurs, Alice and Alicia Crowe, proud Howard University School of Law graduates, worked together as attorneys in their own practice handling legal cases for twenty years. Now they’re working on a different type of case, bottling, and selling a hot sauce, three generations old. Emmaline’s All-Natural Hot Sauce is their grandmother’s recipe. They’ve teamed up to keep their family legacy alive. Love that Sau

At the time of the 1963 March on Washington, where 23-year-old John Lewis was the youngest speaker, fewer than 20 percent of the Black citizens of his home state of Alabama were registered to vote. County registration offices were open as seldom as two days a month, usually during the workday. The rare white employer who gave a Black employee time off to register risked economic retaliation from the local White Citizens Council. Those who managed to make it to stand in the l

New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission completed its statewide listening tour on Sunday, August 15, 2021. During each leg of the tour, which covered 10 regions, concerned citizens, community advocates, and elected officials offered testimony and submitted documents about how to shape maps for New York’s 26 congressional districts and 213 state legislative districts. The federal and state maps are redrawn every 10 years following completion of the U.S. Census. With

Even as President Joe Biden announced earlier this year that the United States would entirely withdraw from Afghanistan, Taliban fighters made their presence felt. Reports and videos appeared to show the Taliban coercing Afghan government forces’ surrender and summarily executing the unarmed military members in front of large crowds of civilians. After President Biden’s April announcement, the Taliban reminded the world that it never recognized its democratic government. Toda

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, H.R. 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, was introduced in the House with key provisions of Congressman Mondaire Jones’ (D-NY) Inclusive Elections Act included in the bill. In July, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, Jones introduced the Inclusive Elections Act with Congressman Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) to restore Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act so that any voter suppression law will once aga

As hundreds of civil rights advocates complete plans for a series of events across the country to heighten the need for new and stronger voting rights laws, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to hold a late August floor vote on an updated bill honoring the legacy of the late civil rights champion and long-term Georgia Congressman, John Lewis. Sponsored by Selma, AL native and U.S. Rep. Terry Sewell, the new version replaces one passed last year in the House but was

For members of Texas Legislature and those who work in its orbit, the days since the 87th Regular Session ended on Memorial Day have been anything but a summer break or a return to our lives as part-time lawmakers. During this period, myself along with Democrat colleagues, have traveled to the nation’s capital twice. And we’ve all traversed the roads from Austin to home like the Regular Session never ended. For what? It’s because the Governor and fellow legislators insist on