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Community members gathered at Erie County Hall to voice their concerns about the county's 2024 budget proposal — specifically the money allocated to the sheriff's office.

Nearly half of the more than 50 speakers at the County Legislatures budget hearing urged legislators to vote against increases in Sheriffs Office funding. Many recommended that the millions of

Organizers of Voice Buffalo are on a mission to better the relationship between parents and their children so they don’t go missing.

In 1996, a group of community leaders from labor, business and notably churches came together to work on community justice and equity issues, long before the Tops shooting on May 14. Today, Rev. Denise-Walden Glenn, the director of that group, VOICE Buffalo talks of their work and what the community needs. She’s joined by VOICE Buffalo Lead Community Organizer Tyrell Ford. They’ll look at advocacy work on behalf of the disabled, the fight against gun violence, their work with the incarcerate...

Daniel's Law is reimagining the response to mental health crises by implementing a community responder team

Kelly Whitfield, Executive Director and Founder Healing Hub of NY, Inc. Whitfield is a leader with Voice Buffalo and knows trauma. She was adopted into an abusive family as a baby, suffered a debilitating car crash (she took college classes in a wheelchair), was in an adult abusive relationship, and suffered the loss of a child, addiction and chronic illness - and will talk with Jay Moran about ways to heal. Then attorney and government reform advocate Kevin Gaughan will talk with Dave Debo abou...

(RNS) — Schools are being barred from discussing racism. That leaves parents and our faith communities.

After a mass shooting targeting Black grocery store customers, local Christians consider all they lost.

(RNS) — ‘They are some of the matriarchs and the pillars of our community,’ Buffalo minister says of residents killed in attack.

The vigil was held 9:30 a.m. near the store and will include members of Voice Buffalo, Stop the Violence Coalition, Buffalo Peacemakers and others.