Westchester Children’s Association Exec Director Allison Lake Interview
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 Read More
Community Spotlights
Spotlighting and Uplifting Individuals In the Community We Feel You Need To Know About
CE Latimer Honors Cupcake Cutie Boutique For Four Years of Selflessly Serving The Community
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 Read More
Empowerment Public Safety Day
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. Read More
Black Woman-Owned Construction Firm Hired to Build New Terminals at JFK and Laguardia Airports
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 Read More
Mayor Andre Wallace: Creating Exciting Progress for Mount Vernon
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 Read More
Brenda L. Crump’s Husband Herman, Had Two Life-Saving Emergency Brain Surgeries In A Week
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 Read More
Celebrating Malcolm X
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. Read More
From Prison To Platinum – The Story Of Johnnie Bunting Jr.
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 Read More
FBI – Fathers Being Involved Dinner at Mount Vernon’s Graham Elem. School
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 Read More
BW Remembers John Howard Griffith and Anthony Robert Valentino, Mount Vernonites Who Died in Vietnam
[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 Read More
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