Brandon Johnson promised to address the city’s longstanding inequities – advocates want to make the most of the moment. Aliya Uteuova May 19, 2024 Read the full article here The Guardian
“You gon’ come to our city and decide you don’t like Black people. Man, you don’t know a damn thing about Black people…We never go to no neighborhoods and take people out.” Beth Kwiatek...
In late March, The New York Times published an opinion piece written by David Brooks, Canadian-born American conservative political and cultural commentator, titled “The Great Struggle for Liberalism”. It is love-letter to liberalism ....
By Beth Kwiatek The UB President, Satish K. Tripathi and the Editorial Board of the Buffalo News were wrong to defend the presence of Michael Knowles, the “intellectually bankrupt bombast” who speaks “noxious content”...
Mayor Byron Brown shouldn’t waste money on a study by NYU’s Wagner School to study the city’s response to the Blizzard of 2022. He only needs to talk to the residents. Beth Kwiatek January...
By Beth Kwiatek
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Byron Brown’s write-in campaign and the Democratic Party’s lack of support and protection for India Walton reflect a dangerous and growing trend within our nation: the subversion of democratic rule. Alarmingly, they have disguised those actions, including Brown’s behavior before and after the primary, as political strategies.
By Beth Kwiatek
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CRT and whiteness studies argue that racism is not the consequence of the actions of individual racists, but that racism is embedded in the systems of our nation: legal, economic, education, religious and political. These systems all purport the myth of equality, but operate in a way that has always benefited whites and continues to do so.