New faces seek to fill the void left by Anthony Brindisi by Ron Klopfanstein...
By Ron Klopfanstein and Ethan Pavlus
New faces seek to fill the void left by Anthony Brindisi
On Thursday, June 24th, Syracuse.com broke the news that former United States Congressman Anthony Brindisi would not be...
Sam Cooke’s Family Sings Too!
The late Sam Cooke and newly discovered daughter Roselyn Trapps Cooke
Today, getting your DNA tested is a trend. People pay a fee to businesses like My Heritage DNA or Ancestry dot com, receive a...
Feature: Kim ‘Badass’ Bass — Growing Up Young, Gifted & Black in Upstate NY
Born in 1956 in Utica NY to mother Juanita Holmes Bass and father Clarence Bass, Jr., Kim is the eldest son and younger brother to twin sisters Janice and Joyce Bass and older brother...
Voices of Polonia: Agrippa Hull, Military Orderly to Colonel Thaddeus Kosciusko
By Ted Rajchel
Background
Somewhere between three and four hundred Black men served in the continental army during the Battle of Saratoga. It is difficult to tell exactly how many because soldiers were not identified by...
Francis and Kati Have Done it Again
Photos and story by Eamon Handzel
Last year, we saw restaurant after restaurant closed to public dining due to the pandemic. Some never reopened, and many of us assumed that Francis and Kati Pezzolanella’s ...
Revived Democratic party in Rural Westmoreland : By Ron Klopfanstein
Revived Democratic party in Rural Westmoreland: By Ron Klopfanstein
On a warm fall evening in Westmoreland, the rural town’s Democratic Party, and perhaps democracy itself, jolted back to life on Bernie and Denise Szarek’s picturesque...
Haudenosaunee Iroquois: We Don’t Want an Apology; We Want Justice
By Doug George-Kanentiio
Native American children sitting outside the steps of the Mohawk Institute. (Photo submitted by Doug George Kanentiio).
There is a reason why the Six Nations-Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) were not invited to Rome to meet...
Japanese Barberry, The Tick Magnet
Japanese Barberry, The Tick Magnet
If you live in the country around here, either you or someone you know has been bitten by a tick, the bad tick, the tiny red and black deer tick....
First Annual Jewtica Festial Draws Crowds
By Utica Phoenix Staff | Photos by Tom Loughlin Jr.
UTICA — On June 12, 2022, the Jewish Community Federation of the Mohawk Valley held its first ever Jewish cultural festival, called ‘Jewtica.’ The event...
Community Foundation Excludes FTG from $10 Million Racial Justice Funds
Despite Establishing a $10 Million Dollar Fund for Racial Justice, The Community Foundation Excludes FTG from Funding Consideration
by Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
Within the past five years, the Community Foundation board of directors, under the leadership of Ronald...