Community Spotlights
Spotlighting and Uplifting Individuals In the Community We Feel You Need To Know About
In our effort to spotlight Unsung Heroes in the community, Black Westchester is proud to highlight Allison Lake, the Executive Director of the Westchester Children’s
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September 21, 2020 // 0 Comments
Westchester County Executive George Latimer presented Miesha Stokley and Montika Jones of Cupcake Cutie Boutique (8 South 6th Avenue, Mount Vernon) with a proclamation in
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November 2, 2019 // 0 Comments
August 31, 2019, marked the “third” Empowerment Public Safety Day with my fellow activist who stood for Ramarley Graham! We met at the house of Ramarley Graham.
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September 2, 2019 // 0 Comments
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 of the most thrown around
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August 26, 2019 // 0 Comments
Let’s start simple this week: I am the only Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon. I will be the Mayor until the end of 2019. Nobody’s going to be able to
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August 20, 2019 // 0 Comments
If you ever been to a Mount Vernon City Council or Mount Vernon City School District board meetingyou know the name Brenda L. Crump. She is always on the scene to live stream
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July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments
Sunday, May 19th would have been the 94th birthday of Malcolm X – el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. Every years during Black History Month and in January in observation of Dr.
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May 19, 2019 // 0 Comments
Johnnie Bunting Jr., is the proud new owner of the Platinum Hand Car Wash located at 40 W. Lincoln Avenue in Mount Vernon New York. His story leading up to this is quite an
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July 7, 2018 // 2 Comments
If you watch television, read the newspaper or pay attention to the mainstream media outlets, they will tell you and show you the statistics of the absent black father from
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October 26, 2016 // 2 Comments
[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 Mayor Richard
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May 31, 2016 // 0 Comments