Mount Vernon Disaster Relief Press Conference
Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard, the Mount Vernon City School District, and the Westchester County Department of Social Services held a press conference on Monday at 1:00...
Breaking News Early Morning Fire in Mount Vernon Displaces Close To 100 People
While very few details were available, Black Westchester has received multiple reports of a 5-alarm fire early Sunday morning at 30 Cottage Avenue in...
Arrest Made Following Fatal Stabbing on Stevens Avenue
Two homicides occurred on the same day in Mount Vernon
Two murders occurred in Mount Vernon on the same day: a shooting close to the...
The Voices of Westchester: Inside the Final Stop of the NYS Black Legislative Task Force Listening Tour
Words by Larnez Kinsey - Photos by Nya Vincent
If you weren’t inside the Gothic Chamber at Philipse Manor Hall last night, let me tell...
CVH Exec Dir. Named Power Woman of Manhattan + City & State’s Women Power 100!
Congratulations to Community Voices Heard's Executive Director, Juanita O. Lewis, who has been named to both Schneps Media's Power Women of Manhattan and City &...
MV Comptroller Financial Town Hall 11-20-25
Mount Vernon Comptroller Dr. Darren M. Morton hosted a Community Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, November 20th, in the City Council Chambers. An opportunity...
Mount Vernon’s Budget Crisis — When Government Prospers and the People Don’t
Mount Vernon is learning a hard lesson that Thomas Sowell warned about for decades: the first rule of economics is scarcity, and the first...
Mount Vernon NewsCenter Receives Letter Demanding Retraction of Inaccurate & Misleading Statements About Comrie Ent. LLC
Mount Vernon NewsCenter (MVNC) received a demand letter from Christian DiPalermo, Esq., the Attorney representing Comrie Enterprises, LLC, on Tuesday, November 18th, demanding a retraction...
A Major Win for Yonkers: New $1.5B Subway Car Deal Secures Jobs and Strengthens Local Industry
Yonkers, NY — The industrial resurgence unfolding in Yonkers under Mayor Mike Spano reached a new milestone with the announcement that Kawasaki Rail Car,...
Local Food Pantries and Distribution Sites
Even before the federal government shutdown in November, which threatened to cut off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP benefits, communities of color and other marginalized...
MVCSD To Hold Public Hearing On State Monitor’s Findings Report
The Mount Vernon City School District (MVCSD) was appointed an academic monitor by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and will hold a...
Know Your Rights Tenant Forum To Be Held By NAACP-Yonkers Housing Committee
NAACP-Yonkers Branch Housing Committee will be hosting a Know Your Rights Tenant Forum on Thursday, November 20, 2025, at Sarah Lawrence College Center for...
MV Youth Bureau’s Debbie Burrell-Butler, Selected One of 914 Inc. Magazine’s Westchester Women in Business in 2025
Debbie Burrell-Butler, Mount Vernon Youth Bureau Executive Director, was selected by 914 Inc as one of 21 amazing women making Westchester exponentially better in...
Environmental Leaders of Color Students Lead ‘Don’t Strain Your Drain’ Initiative to Protect Westchester’s Waterways
Yonkers, NY — October 25, 2025 — Students from Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, and Port Chester participating in the Environmental Leaders of Color (ELOC) Student Environmental...
Educators Gather for 57th Annual Outdoor Education Conference at Sharpe Reservation
The New York State Outdoor Education Association (NYSOEA) hosted its 57th Annual Conference at the Fresh Air Fund’s Sharpe Reservation in Fishkill, New York,...
When the Housing Talk Misses the People It’s About
On the evening of November 6, 2025, at 6:00 p.m., I attended an affordable-housing forum in Yonkers that promised to bring clarity to a...
HRCA & WBWPC To Host Community Affordable Housing Forum in Yonkers, Nov 6
The Hudson River Community Association (HRCA) and the Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus (WBWPC) – Yonkers Chapter invite Westchester residents to attend the first...
Pace University Dedicates Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Social Justice Reading Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXBppo_4jBE
White Plains, NY — During Social Justice Week at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law, community leaders, lawmakers, faculty, students, and advocates gathered for a historic...
Feeding Westchester Activates Emergency Programs for Federal Employees
Partnership with Westchester County and Stop & Shop
Feeding Westchester, in partnership with Westchester County and Stop & Shop, held an emergency food distribution on...
Food Assistance, Public Safety, and Health Care Updates From Sen Andrea Stewart-Cousin
On November 1st, without federal action, 73,000 people in Westchester County and over 40 million Americans will lose access to the benefits that put...
