End of an Era
City Manager resigns Tuesday, April 9th, marked the end of the Chuck Strome-Kathleen Gill 26-year reign in New Rochelle. With Gill’s resignation and settlement with the City, a search for a new City Manager...
Monthly Archive: April 2024
Book Review: “Race Rules: What Your Black Friends Won’t Tell You” by Fatimah Gilliam
Reviewed by Maxine Golub Kudos to the New Rochelle Public Library for inviting Fatimah Gilliam to discuss her new book, Race Rules: What Your Black Friends Won’t Tell You. The discussion, held on Saturday,...
Seismic Change in New Rochelle City Bureaucracy
NR City Council authorizes a settlement in its quest to remove City Manager Gill In a victory for representative government, on April 4, New Rochelle’s Mayor, Yadira Ramos-Herbert, convened a Special Meeting of the...
Black Westchester District Attorney Debate: An Insider, An Outsider, and a No-Show
William Wagstaff and Adeel Mirza face off at Mount Vernon Public Library, Cacace fails to appear. On March 6, Black Westchester hosted a debate for the Democratic candidates for Westchester County District Attorney at...
Library Postpones, then Reschedules Book Talk on Progressive Social Movements
Citing concerns for “balance and security,” NRPL caves to anti-Palestinian pressure campaign, then reschedules talk for April 18 A week before a long-scheduled talk by the editors of a book on 21st-century progressive activism,...