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Performers in 'Invisible/Visible: Telling It Like It Is.’

News

ZCO Dance Project, Deaf Music Ensemble tell it ‘Like It Is’

By Nelson A. King

Prof. Martin Felix delivers the featured address at the 136th Anniversary Celebration at Fenimore Street United Methodist Church.

Grenada

Advocates: Militarism, exploitation threaten Caribbean justice

By Nelson A. King

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, center, with Dominican Republic flag, with honorees and other patrons.

Dominican Republic

Gibson hosts annual DR heritage celebration

By Nelson A. King

Founder of the Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) Mohamed Q. Amin, eighth from left (front) poses with members, and celebrants after leading the 38th Annual Phagwah Parade on March 29, in Richmond Hill Queens.

Queens

Caribbean Equality Project leads 2026 Phagwah Social Justice Collective at Little Guyana’s Annual Holi Parade

By Tangerine Clarke

Governor Kathy Hochul unveils Liberty Landing, a transformative project to convert the state-owned 100,000 square-foot former Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan into affordable housing for low-income residents and supportive housing for formerly incarcerated individuals reentering the community. The proposed project, a joint venture between Camber Property Group and Osborne Association, would invest over $108 million in West Chelsea and provide 124 permanently affordable housing units and on-site supportive services.

Cannabis

Hochul celebrates five years of ganja legislation

By Nelson A. King

Honorees proudly pose after receiving their awards, representing branches including the U.S. Army, Army Reserve, Navy, and New York Army National Guard.

News

Sanders Jr. celebrates Women in Armed Forces at Rochdale Village event

By Orlande Fleury

Self-portrait of Trinidad and Tobago native Allison Carr, who now lives in Brooklyn, and runs her fashion boutique Collection by Ally.

News

Trinidadian’s path to fashion design

By Milette Millington

Jamaica's Prime Minister, Andrew Holness.

Jamaica

Jamaican PM to receive AFUWI Legacy Award

By Nelson A. King

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis.

Antigua

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

Media Stakeout by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana, following the vote in the General Assembly on the Resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.

News

UN vote asserts Israel/US alliance in denouncing Transatlantic Slave Trade

By Vinette K. Pryce

A coalition of organizations, elected officials, on on March 8, demanded funding and resources to end gun violence, after a mass shooting outside Richard's Restaurant & Bar on Avenue L, in Canarsie, Brooklyn, over the weekend. From left, are Senator Roxanne Persaud’s Chief of Staff Tanequa Strong, a representative from Enough is Enough, NYS Assembly Member (AD59) Jamie Williams, organizer, Jibreel Jalloh (sixth from left), a speaker from Save Our Streets (SOS), and Founder & CEO of Man Up Inc. Andre T. Mitchell.

Brooklyn

Community, NYPD join call for action after Canarsie shooting

By Tangerine Clarke

Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (center) with honorees.

People

Ten years strong: Bichotte Hermelyn honors eight Women of Distinction

By Nelson A. King

Attendees participate in a Pilates session during IYKYK Collective’s second annual Women’s Wellness Day, celebrating International Women’s Month.

News

Inside IYKYK Collective’s Women’s Wellness Day: A celebration of connection, care and community

By Tracey Khan

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are present as passengers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint after hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were ordered to deploy to airports to help fill TSA staffing gaps, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. March 23, 2026.

Immigration advocates condemn Trump ‘erroneously’ justifying court house arrests of Caribbean migrants

By Nelson A. King

New York State Senator James Sanders, Jr., speaks alongside Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.

Politics

State lawmakers call communities to Albany for 2026 MWBE Advocacy Day

By Orlande Fleury

A vintage car passes by the Calixto Garcia hospital as Cuba’s once-vaunted healthcare system, long hailed as a cornerstone of the 1959 revolution, has deteriorated amid years of economic crisis and U.S. sanctions, a decline that has accelerated this year with U.S. restrictions on oil supplies, in Havana, Cuba, March 24, 2026.

News

Caribbean moves to aid Cuba amid crisis

By Bert Wilkinson

More from Around NYC

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Hunts Point native Felipe Garcia challenging AOC in June primary

An unidentified person was struck and killed by an M train on Thursday at the Grand Avenue-Newtown subway station in Elmhurst.

Person struck and killed by M train at Grand Ave-Newtown subway station in Elmhurst: NYPD

Infrastructure introduced during Phase 1 of the 31st Avenue redesign.

Mamdani, DOT announce Phase 2 of 31st Avenue’s ‘bike boulevard’ to commence this year

New York Knicks guard Josh Hart (3) shoots against Philadelphia 76ers forward Paul George (8) during the first quarter of game three of the second round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

Josh Hart speaks on Knicks focus, organizational success ahead of Eastern Conference finals