Caribbean Life News Headlines Archive for July 21, 2025

Book cover of “Joy Goddess: A’Leila Walker and the Harlem Renaissance.”

Books

Like mother, like daughter in this opulent new biography

By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Mayor Eric Adams speaks at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Restoration Plaza on July 28, 2022 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn borough in New York City

Guest Perspective

Community Op-Ed: The most pro-housing administration in city’s history

By Mayor Eric Adams

From left, Moderator Madeleine McGirk Rutherford, with panelists Hōkū Pavao, Mariana Rosa and Nisha Sajnani, on stage during the “Art & Health Panel: Exploring the Power of the Arts in Health - A Global Perspective,” held at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on July 11, 2025.

Lincoln Center hosts Art and Health Panel as part of Summer Series

By Milette Millington

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson addressing the Caribbean-American Heritage Month Celebration at Andrew Freeman House, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

Bronx

‘Enough is enough’: Gibson, Speaker Adams decry inequities facing Black women

By Nelson A. King

People hold signs with the pictures of missing people during a "Good Trouble Lives On" protest against U.S. President Donald Trump and in remembrance of late U.S. Congressman and civil rights pioneer John Lewis, in New York City, U.S., July 17, 2025.

News

Dual-purpose nationwide weekend protests laud a leader; damned another

By Vinette K. Pryce

More from Around NYC

OneNYC Yasser Salem, moderator Dalourny Nemorin and the NY-15 candidates, Michael Blake and Jose Vega.

Michael Blake and Jose Vega debate housing, immigration and Israel in NY-15 race.

NYC DOT employees distribute free bike helmets at Manhattan Summer Streets 2023. Photo via DOT.

Mamdani, DOT to host series of bike safety giveaways across Queens this spring

MAMDANI’S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor expands free 2-K program to run 10 hours a day, year-round

Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty Red Bull New York FC Cincy

Stars aligning for Red Bull’s Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty with Canada call-up ahead of 2026 World Cup