Violence

Our public safety system is ill-equipped to find missing Black people or intervene in domestic violence.

Mass Incarceration

For far too long, the atrocities at Rikers Island Jail have gone unaddressed. We must decarcerate and close it. Eerily close to the 50th anniversary of the Attica riots, Rikers Island...

Racism

NYC is experiencing a housing crisis, with those who identify as LGBTQIA+ being most impacted. New York City is portrayed as the city of dreams, fashion, sex, food, and freedom; however,...

Stay-at-home orders across the country have implications for our most vulnerable.

Learning from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

Racism

A truly equitable world means the needs of disabled people are not only considered, but prioritized.

2021 Mass Incarceration

The Pride we know started as a protest against police violence. For the past 25 years, the New York Police Department (NYPD) has marched in the legendary New York City Pride parade....

2021 Racism

100 Years Later, We Have Yet to Reckon with Our Darkest Moments This Juneteenth, we must put pressure on elected officials and society at large to acknowledge Black and other people of...

2021 Mass Incarceration

As gun violence spikes in cities like New York, many are looking to mass incarceration to solve the issue instead of addressing the root causes of violence. With life adjusting to the...

Violence 2021

What is happening to Palestinians today and what has been happening to Palestinians for over a century is a wrenching example of systemic violence rooted in settler-colonialism and white...