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  • Mr. Sankofa: Dr. David Anderson
  • February 19, 2021


Mr. Sankofa is what I refer to when I speak of Dr. David Anderson.

Sankofa is a word in the Akan Twi Fante languages of Ghana that ...

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  • Tearing Down Fences: The Life of Alice Holloway...
  • November 17, 2020


In Dr. Young's biography entitled Tearing Down Fences: The Life of Alice Holloway Young, its author Sally Parker did a masterful job charting t...

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Ancestral Community Activist: Dr. Wal...


Dr. Walter Cooper, Ph. D is a former scientist (Eastman Kodak)and Regent Emeritus of the state of New York, who has been in his youth and conti...

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Rochester City School District (RCSD)...


Multimedia business owner, racial consultant and current University of Rochester graduate student Amen Imhotep Ptah, who is pursuing a Master d...

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Rev. Lewis Stewart: A Throwback Lead...


The United Christian Leadership Ministry (UCLM) is an ecumenical coalition of religious and civic institutions formed in 2013 creating a moveme...

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Revisiting the efforts of Spiritus Ch...


After returning in 2017, from a week-long trip visiting numerous historical and contemporary civil rights sites, museums and memorials, twenty-...

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Living on a Plantation: Rochester, Ne...


The definition of Apartheid (South African English), was a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa and Sout...

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Inching Closer: To Become the First N...


Former Founding Teacher of Rochester Prep Elementary School, Brittany Rumph is well on her way to becoming the first native of Rochester that h...

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Love Horizon Daycare


We can never honor and support our essential workers enough during the Covid-19 outbreak. They continued to be, as the idiom goes, our knights ...

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Bridging the Gap


FREE BBQ, hotdogs, burgers and recreational entertainment such as bounce houses, horses, live music and fire trucks will be a part of The Bapti...

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Working to Rid Institutional Structur...


Take Down It Down Planning Committee and Faith Community Alliance have been focusing for more than five years on working to impact individual a...

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Senseless Shootings and Avoidable Hom...


Like…. if the Covid-19 pandemic is not enough, in the last few weeks, the city of Rochester has been plagued with senseless acts of gun violenc...

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Next Up: Newly appointed RCSD Superin...


The Rochester City School District (RCSD) Board of Education and its administrative and teachers’ union throughout the district's continuous ye...

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Questions & Answers with City Co...


Southwest Tribune: How did the drive to develop a Police Accountability Board (PAB) originated?

Loretta Scott: The issue of PAB has...

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When an unarmed black person is shot ...


After serving more than thirty years as a sworn officer, retired Rochester Police Department (RPD) Deputy Chief Wayne P. Harris has continued a...

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Recruiting New Allies


In the fight for equity, there are times where I wonder if anything we do is making a difference.

Fighting to dismantle structural ...

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Mayor Lovely Warren on issues plaguin...


After several months of being overwhelmed by the ghost-like unpredictability of Covid-19, the city of Rochester is being forced into survival m...

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The Platinum Apple


Teachers are answering the call, despite the overwhelming difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

One such educator is Cassan...

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What they are doing ‘locally’ to prot...


Cover Photo: MLREMS Council Chairman Mark Philippy

Mainstream media’s traditional approach, when recognizing those heroes and shero...

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Opening up states too soon may backfire


President Trump announced a plan on April 16, to re-open the country in three phases, based on the severity of the outbreak in each state or re...

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Brittany Rumph, Lead Founder of Roche...


Former Founding Teacher of Rochester Prep Elementary School, Brittany Rumph is well on her way to becoming the first native of Rochester that h...

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Kevin Beckford: On a Mission for Dive...


Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Kevin Beckford's dad grew up on a farm.

His last name is that of an English slaveholder, Lord William B...

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The Blueprint: East High Superintende...


When East High School’s Superintendent Shaun Nelms accepted the new position created in 2015, by a partnership between the University of Roches...

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Is Lead Lurking in Your Home or Renta...

Is Lead Lurking in Your Home or Rental Apartment?

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Brue Coffee Closing Its Doors –...


To our friends, neighbors, and Brue customers:

Brue Coffee has now shut down for good.

We know there will be rumors a...

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Wyoma Best: Remembering and Celebrati...


Wyoma Best is the first African American woman, (27 years old), to serve on the Rochester City School Board. She was elected in November 1970. ...

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Laplois “Lake” Ashford: R...


Photo (left to right):Ashford, unidentified man, Thomas Todd and Vernon Jarrett

Laplois 'Lackie' Ashford is the first African Ameri...

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