Innermost Parts

We can always use more STI-testing, no? As part of an initiative to increase HIV and AIDS awareness, the Bronx has started The Bronx Knows, a program to provide Bronx residents with safe, accessible, confidential HIV and AIDS testing in an effort to counter the HIV epidemic that has hit all of NYC but especially [...]

The Institute of Assets and Social Policy, a research institute at Brandeis’ Heller School, conducted a study which found that the wealth gap between African-American and white families has been increasing since the 1980′s, and recommended ways to deal with this disparity. The wealth gap between white and African-American families increased more than four times between [...]

Got this e-mail from The New York Public Library, think it’s worth a read. Libraries are important! Don’t Close the Book on Libraries – Act Now The New York Public Library is facing a potential $37 million cut in City funding. This is the harshest cut in our history and comes at a time when [...]

Several minutes after the SEA Banquet ended, this exhange took place amongst some of my friends who had attended it with me.  The following conversation has been paraphrased, and names have been changed to protect the innocent: Fiat: I have something to say but I don’t want to offend you. Adom:  Just say it! Fiat: You know [...]

We Will Remember from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo. If you have not seen this video yet, watch it. The other day, when Rick Pearlstein met with a bunch of us “activists” in Sahar’s suite, he talked a bunch about the strategies the Republican Party has been employing, quite effectively, to attack the Democratic Party. [...]