New York City's historic Medgar Evers College will be offering the first-ever cannabis minor degree program for a CUNY campus.

An 80-pound cougar was removed from a New York City apartment where she was being kept illegally as a pet, animal welfare officials said Monday.

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Famed director Spike Lee doesn’t take the official explanation of what happened on 9/11 for face value, and it has been reported by The New York Times that there are remarks from “conspiracy theorists” embedded within his new HBO docu-series, 'NYC Epicenters 9/11-> 2021½.'

32-year-old MTA motorman Terrell Harris is currently being sought out by authorities for giving his girlfriend, 28-year-old Dominique Belgrave, access to control the D Train at 50th Street, 55th Street and 62nd Street stations in BK's Borough Park neighborhood.

With newly-mandated vaccine requirements that will make it virtually impossible to move around freely, will unvaccinated Black people be at an even higher risk of being ostracized from our communities yet again?

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An NYC surveillance video shows the disturbing footage of the victim being executed on a crowded street in Crown Heights. A woman quickly approached the victim, identified as Delia Johnson, and then shot her in the back of the head and again in her leg as she collapsed.

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New York City will require all of its municipal workers — including teachers and police officers — to get coronavirus vaccines by mid-September or face weekly COVID-19 testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.

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A pair of newly erected George Floyd statues in New York City and New Jersey have been targeted by racist vandals.

David Dinkins, New York City's first and only Black mayor, has passed away. He was 93.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department says it is trying to find a car that drove through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters blocking a street in Times Square. Video posted on social media shows the car jerking through the crowd Thursday night with its horn blaring as demonstrators scream and scramble out […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is reporting more cases of a rare pediatric syndrome possibly linked to the coronavirus. Meanwhile, data released Tuesday shows that nine out of 10 people arrested for coronavirus-related offenses in New York City have been black or Hispanic. Here are the latest coronavirus-related developments in New York: LIKE […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was ordered immediately freed from a Manhattan federal lockup four months early Thursday by a judge who cited his asthma and the greater danger he would face behind bars during the coronavirus outbreak. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer made the ruling a day after telling lawyers on […]