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Last year was a slow year for MWBEs, and Mayor Eric Adams said he wants to grow the program.

A NEW pocket park for Bolton is set to honour some of the borough’s legends of stage and screen.

It's been one year since the death of Black American George Floyd at the hands of police and experts say that systemic changes to address in the US will take a long time. Floyd's death fuelled racial justice protests last year across the country and a national conversation about systemic racism. Professor Wallace Ford, a professor of public administration at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, told Euronews that change will take longer than just a few months or years. "If you're going to change a system, it takes a systemic effort. It's not just a couple of months of prot...

28 Comments Illustration by Texas Monthly; Left Senior: Roy James Shakespeare/Getty; Middle Senior: K.Hatt/Getty; Right: Tim Robberts/Getty Since Texans 65 and older became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, my friends and I have been feverishly swapping emails and texts with links to vaccine registration sites, urging one another on, and reporting which sites work and which don’t. Online, it’s mass delirium and competition. (My friend John says he hasn’t been so angst-ridden since he was trying to score tickets to Hamilton.) But we aren’t just losing our minds over getting the vacci...