Tag: Black History Month

  • International Women’s Day Petition

     Get Ready! International Women’s Day (March 8) will be here before we know it! What better way to celebrate and honor the women in your life than to make International Women’s Day a New York State holiday!  The Red Carpet for Justice Coalition needs your help in the campaign to get the New York State Legislature to adopt…

  • Black History Month And Two Pandemics

    200 years ago, the population of New York was 123,706. 10,086 of those New Yorkers were a mixture of free or enslaved Black New Yorkers or just over 8% of the city’s population. (New York City was, 200 years ago, home to the 4th largest Black population in the United States. Only Baltimore, Charleston, and…