Forty-one percent of domestic workers earn wages that don’t even come close to covering the city’s high cost of living. more>

Following a discussion over the Immigrant Opportunities Initiative, many share the same opinion that the issues of funding and changing federal law act as an obstacle to future services. more>

The use of the National Crime Information Center Database by the New York Police Department to find out the immigration status of people they question has raised alarm bells for advocates. The City Council Committee on Immigration is investigating if this practice violates city policy. more>

The City Council’s Committee on Immigration held a hearing on Resolution 42, calling on the U.S. Congress to oppose President Bush’s federal temporary guest worker program and to support comprehensive immigration reform that includes permanent legalization and fair worker protection for immigrants. more>

I sat quietly at the press table in the front of the City Council chamber, waiting for the meeting to begin. Instead, all hell broke loose. When it was finally over, it dawned on me that not only had I taken the last photo of Councilmember Davis alive, I stood next to the man who killed him while doing so! more>

While seeming to shield immigrant residents from wrongful questioning, Bloomberg's Executive Order 34 reverses several crucial provisions, including the current prohibition of the Police Department on sharing with the federal government non-criminal confidential information about New Yorkers. more>

Ever since the deadly May 16th police raid of Alberta Spruill’s Harlem apartment—the result of a warrant to search the mistakenly identified apartment—Harlemites have taken to the streets expressing their outrage. Throughout the city, people of all races share their fury. City council members are listening. more>

If it were only about Miguel Malo, it would be bad enough. The most troubling thing is, it’s about much more: the first amendment rights of blacks, Latinos and other students of color at the City University of New York (CUNY). more>

Well over 1,000 black, Latino, Asian and white people packed Rev. Herbert Daughtry's church to demand the U.S. government ''Wage War on Poverty and Racism—Not on Iraq!'' Rev. Daughtry joined forces with Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) to hold one of the first major anti-war-on-Iraq events in New York's black community. more>

The Gramercy Park Trust faces a lawsuit by Black and Latino students at Washington Irving High School, their parents, some teachers, and Mr. O. Aldon James, president of the National Arts Club. Gramercy Park is the only privately-owned park in New York. James, a member of the park, invited the students to the park for a field trip, but they were chased out because of their race. Sharpton and other prominent allies are protesting every day at lunch. more>