Why Police Accountability Is Personal for This Manhattan D.A. Candidate
Alvin Bragg has had encounters with the police both in the streets and in the courts. He wants to change the system from within.
Alvin Bragg has stressed the overlap between his own life story and issues of race and policing in his run for Manhattan district attorney. Credit.Andrew Seng for The New York Times
May 12, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
The first time Alvin Bragg began thinking about police accountability was not long after an officer put a gun to his head, when he was a 15-year-old in Harlem in the 1980s.
Know your candidates: Ranti Ogunleye, educator and activist, running for City Council
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
Ranti Ogunleye, a candidate for the North Shore s City Council seat, poses for a photo. (Courtesy: Ogunleye campaign/Jhnayah Flack)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Ranti Ogunleye has a famous last name, but has also built a name for himself through his lifetime of work on the North Shore.
His brother, Adewale, made his name on the gridiron playing as a defensive end for the Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, and Houston Texans. Ranti, on the other hand, made his name in the community through his activism and work as an educator.
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Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
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