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Eric Adams s Win Is a Watershed Moment for Black Leaders in New York
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Editorial: NY Senate majority leader must make Board of Elections reform a priority
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Sen. Schumer pushes ‘Momnibus Act’ to aid maternal health of Black women
News 12 Staff
Updated on: Jul 11, 2021, 1:24am
Advocates and state officials
gathered in Yonkers Saturday to come up with a plan to change maternal outcomes among Black women.
During a news conference outside St. John s Hospital in Yonkers, Sen. Chuck Schumer said that New York s maternal mortality rate ranks 30th out of 50 states – hitting women of color the hardest.
According to Schumer, Black mothers are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than Caucasian women, and they are more than twice as likely to have birth complications. I never knew my grandmother because she died in childbirth, when my mother was 4, Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins shared. When she died in childbirth in the 1920s, it was not a conversation. It wasn t a discussion.
Push to Reform New York City Board of Elections Gains Steam Following Mayoral Vote Tally Gaffe
Several key New York State lawmakers told The Wall Street Journal that there are plans to hold hearings on the New York City Board of Elections (BOE) following last week’s mayoral primary vote miscount blunder, potentially pushing longstanding efforts to reform the administrative body across the finish line.
Democrat Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the state Senate majority leader, told the outlet that the chamber would hold hearings and seek to pass reform legislation “at the earliest opportunity,” while assemblywoman Latrice Walker, a Democrat who chairs the Senate election committee, said the hearings would include a review of the structure of the BOE, which has long been a key concern.
Campaign Against Co-op Discrimination Wins Westchester Law
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