Juneteenth Photo ID Event for Oneida County Black History Archive
The Oneida County History Center and For the Good, Inc. will host a community photo identification and documentation event on Friday, June 17, 2022, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, to commemorate Juneteenth, and...
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...
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...
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...
Happy New Year! Welcome 2022! City of Utica
- by Eamon Handzel
As the year of 2021 saw some pretty bad headlines in the news and a host of new problems in this new world, the city fathers decided that it was in...
Meet the Hummingbirds
by Jess Szabo', Arts Writer
Utica is known for having a thriving community of gifted musicians. We have everything from Pop bands to folk singers to Jazz musicians and artists who use music in interdisciplinary...
Unchained: Allan Rohan Crite, Spirituality and Black Activism at MWPAI
UTICA, NY… “Unchained: Allan Rohan Crite, Spirituality and Black Activism,” on view at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, February 20 to May 8, is the first exhibition to explore the spiritual art of Allan...
Rollicking but Reverent
Utica’s St Mary of Mt Carmel/Blessed Sacrament Church filled for the performance of NYC Chelsea Opera Company’s “Bending Towards the Light, Jazz Nativity”
-Story and photos by Tom Loughlin, Jr.
“In Bethlehem in the grotto where...
Joanne Shenandoah 1957-2021: Matriarch of Indigenous Music
By: Michelle Schenandoah
Photos By: Jane Feldman
She had a bright voice like liquid gold, a luminous heart, and a magnetic smile. Joanne Shenandoah-Tekaliwakwah, one of the most renowned Indigenous musicians on the Native American...
The Linwood Place & Jay Street Community Gardens – On the Land Theft attempt; ...
The Community Gardens, Land Theft and Corruption under the cover of COVID 19 lockdowns.
By Natalie M. Williams
The five main questions a reporter asks are: Who, What, Where, When and Why?
In the case of the...