Westchester Children’s Association Exec Director Allison Lake Interview
Rate ArticleIn our effort to spotlight Unsung Heroes in the community, Black Westchester is proud to highlight Allison Lake, the Executive Director of the Westchester...
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CE Latimer Honors Cupcake Cutie Boutique For Four Years of Selflessly Serving The Community
Rate ArticleWestchester County Executive George Latimer presented Miesha Stokley and Montika Jones of Cupcake Cutie Boutique (8 South 6th Avenue, Mount Vernon) with a proclamation...
Empowerment Public Safety Day
Rate ArticleAugust 31, 2019, marked the “third” Empowerment Public Safety Day with my fellow activist who stood for Ramarley Graham! We met at the house...
Black Woman-Owned Construction Firm Hired to Build New Terminals at JFK and Laguardia Airports
Rate Article This is a man’s worldThis is a man’s worldBut it wouldn’t be nothingNothing without a woman or a girl – James Brown One...
Mayor Andre Wallace: Creating Exciting Progress for Mount Vernon
Rate ArticleLet’s start simple this week: I am the only Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon. I will be the Mayor until the end...
Brenda L. Crump’s Husband Herman, Had Two Life-Saving Emergency Brain Surgeries In A Week
Rate ArticleIf you ever been to a Mount Vernon City Council or Mount Vernon City School District board meetingyou know the name Brenda L. Crump....
Celebrating Malcolm X
Rate ArticleSunday, May 19th would have been the 94th birthday of Malcolm X – el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. Every years during Black History Month and in...
From Prison To Platinum – The Story Of Johnnie Bunting Jr.
Rate ArticleJohnnie Bunting Jr., is the proud new owner of the Platinum Hand Car Wash located at 40 W. Lincoln Avenue in Mount Vernon New...
FBI – Fathers Being Involved Dinner at Mount Vernon’s Graham Elem. School
Rate ArticleIf you watch television, read the newspaper or pay attention to the mainstream media outlets, they will tell you and show you the statistics...
BW Remembers John Howard Griffith and Anthony Robert Valentino, Mount Vernonites Who Died in Vietnam
Rate Article[Editor’s Note: Story updated June 1st at 1:54 A.M. BW originally wrote these two brave men were Mount Vernon Firefighters from the information in...