REAL TALK From AJ Woodson
A new column from Editor-In-Chief AJ Woodson
Over the course of a week or so, Black Westchester has received a plethora or calls, emails and messages about the controversy over Minister Louis Farrakhan’s image on
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August 25, 2022 // 5 Comments
Mount Vernon PBA President Nicholas Mastrogiorgio posted a disturbing post on Facebook, Friday afternoon. In the post (which you can read in its entirety below) Mastrogiorgio
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July 8, 2022 // 2 Comments
Former Mount Vernon City School Trustee Cynthia Turnquest-Jones has officially stepped down for the School Board effectively, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. At the Tuesday, June 21st
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June 22, 2022 // 2 Comments
Let me start of by given props to Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for handling herself with dignity while facing three days of questioning from Senate
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March 24, 2022 // 1 Comment
As we enter the silly season of politics and primaries we hear a lot about Critical Race Theory that has led to a ban on books that discuss race, gender, and sexuality,
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February 26, 2022 // 1 Comment
Councilmember Tasha Diaz was elected to be the next Majority Leader of the Yonkers City Council at the re-organization meeting on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Diaz – who
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January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments
I have said til I’m blue in the face, if we do not get criminal justice reform after the national and international outrage and protest following the deaths of George
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December 17, 2021 // 0 Comments
When we say, “Black Lives Matter,” they say, “All Lives Matter.” When we put up signs that say All Lives Can’t Matter Until Blacks Lives Matter in
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December 2, 2021 // 1 Comment
Ok, so I took a brief hiatus, and while I watched what unfolded in 2020 and wrote an editorial in January titled, Mount Vernon, Divided We stand. Then I watched quietly over
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November 5, 2021 // 0 Comments
This started out as a simple letter to the editor from some of our readers about unsafe living conditions in their apartment building and quickly turned into something much
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August 25, 2021 // 3 Comments
