MVCC to host ‘Colorful Girls Rock’ symposium with Yandy Smith-Harris of ‘Love and Hip...
On Thursday, Nov. 16, Mohawk Valley Community College will host the event “Colorful Girls Rock” from 5 to 10 p.m. in Schafer Theater in the Information Technology Building on the Utica Campus. Reality star...
Point-Counterpoint-Counterpoint on MVHS Hospital Upgrade
Utica Phoenix Editor-in-chief, Cassandra Harris-Lockwood, printed an editorial opinion in the October edition of the newsmagazine, Going to the Hospital. Marques Phillips, son of Councilman Bill Phillips and former writer for the Utica Daily...
Hillary Rodham Clinton in Man’s World
By C. Harris-Lockwood
There are few women and fewer men who can imagine what it is like to be a woman to dare to achieve in a ‘Man’s World.’ And there is no other woman...
From The Editor
By C Harris- Lockwood
A Facebook meme which I have seen before recently popped up on my page. It was something to the effect of “No Black person alive today was ever a slave. No...
A Royal Welcome
By David Dancy
Photos by Thomas E. Loughlin Jr.
On Friday, July 28, 2017, For The Good Inc. (FTG) presented to the community an event of monumental, historical, cultural importance. For the first time in the...
The Loss of Vernon Downs Greater than Anticipated
Photos and text by: Cassandra Harris-Lockwood:
Harness racing is as old as America. Scenes and tales from the earliest days of our country depict horses and their drivers racing to the finish line. Still today...
When Will It Be Safe To Be Black In America?
By: Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
So, America has finally managed to criminalize the condition of being Black. Black people had previously assumed that once we were able to provide proof that these terrible things were really happening...
Community Action – It’s Time For A Change
By Casandra Harris-Lockwood, editor-in-chief
In 2010 when then-Mayor Roefaro hired a consultant to research the impact of the loss of UCAI’s $10 million annual infusion of funding and programs, the biggest loss was determined to...