ethnicity

“If you embrace antisemites and racists and homophobes and xenophobes, then you are one of them.”

Advocates are turning to the redistricting process to secure political power, but legal and systemic roadblocks pose a significant challenge.

“You go back to the 1930s when thousands of people in Syracuse of Italian extraction, gave their nickels and dimes and quarters to build that monument."

The United States is withdrawing from Afghanistan after 20 years since invading after Sept. 11, 2001. Local Afghans who assisted American troops are pleading for the U.S. to evacuate their families.

Hundreds of Native American children’s remains were recently found in a mass grave at a residential school site in Canada. The U.S. also sent Native children to such schools and local Haudenosaunee people are still seeking justice.

Organizations meet new needs of people they have already built trust with.

The Senecas have insisted that under the Compact, their financial obligations to New York State ceased after the original 14-year deal.

The new fund is designed to offer relief to undocumented immigrants who, during the pandemic, didn’t have access to unemployment and other benefits, like federal stimulus checks.

"This is not about anything evil. This is about unity. And we want to make sure that we don’t have the city of Syracuse in 2020 to make a horrible, irretrievable, irreparable mistake."

Advocates in New York have organized to help deaf refugees become self-sufficient.