Karen Pennar Named New Editor of Voices of NY
The Washington Heights native and former economics writer for BusinessWeek had been the website’s interim editor.
The Washington Heights native and former economics writer for BusinessWeek had been the website’s interim editor.
Karen Pennar and Jehangir Khattak have been named co-directors of the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
The Loisaida Festival on Sunday drew crowds, including some who were waiting to learn about and obtain a new community currency, the Puerto Rican peso, part of a project called Valor y Cambio.
Cuban-born artist Armando Mariño has a solo show in Harlem that explores themes of identity, gender and acceptance.
The Queens Night Market at Flushing Meadows Corona Park features more than 50 food vendors and 20 art vendors this year.
More than 1,200 attended the 11th National Immigrant Integration Conference, held this year next to the nation’s capital.
In announcing her candidacy for New York City public advocate, Melissa Mark-Viverito spoke about the lack of Latino and female representation in city government, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
NYS Democratic candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon met for the first time with a group of ethnic and community media reporters to discuss her platform and answer questions.
Voters who will shortly be weighing proposals from the Mayor’s Charter Revision Commission can look forward to more broad-based proposals next year from a City Council-led commission.
After nearly seven decades of publishing for the Estonian diaspora in the U.S., Vaba Eesti Sõna faces an uncertain future.
“We Speak NYC,” the second season of an English language learning program, was launched by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
Experts discussed challenges to the 2020 Census, in New York and beyond, at a panel held by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
City officials urged that all New Yorkers be counted in the 2020 Census, and vowed to continue fighting against the inclusion of a citizenship question.
Immigration lawyers at a panel sponsored by the Center for Community and Ethnic Media discussed the current environment.
Melissa Mark-Viverito, who is leaving the City Council and her position as speaker at the end of the month, spoke with reporters at her final ethnic media roundtable.