We at the Amsterdam News wanted to take a second to talk about the U.S. Constitution, one of the most influential and “living” legal documents in the world.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she and the State Legislature reached an agreement on the budget for fiscal year 2026.

There’s something inherently dangerous about traveling alone across the country. America is wide, vast, and in many ways experiencing a constitutional crisis. Throw in the added layers of being female ...

To get Venezuela off its back and to cease it from scaring away investors by threatening to invade and take the Essequibo, Guyana had back in 2018 approached the Court for a once and for all ruling.

The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909.

Child abuse investigations by NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) often target low-income Black and Latino women.

The Kelsey is a California-based nonprofit founded in 2018 that develops disability-forward housing and advocates for housing policy.

Brown spent 23 years out of a 40-year sentence in prison for a 1999 shooting which injured two men, leaving one victim paralyzed. During the original trial, his previous lawyer failed to mention a leg ...

The challenges that immigrant educators face in higher education and academia also permeate K-12 public education in New York City.

Due to traffic, the bus runs significantly slower than the citywide average, moving at just four miles per hour in some busier segments. Last summer, the city unveiled formative plans to paint a ...

The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is changing the name of its annual Legacy Awards for literature to the Zora Awards.

Leopoldo Fleming, the conguero and percussionist, and composer whose multi rhythms ignited the definitive sounds of Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, and Harry Belafonte, died on April 28 in Paterson, N.J.