Milette Millington, Author at Caribbean Life – Page 3 of 4

Soleil Sabalja doing a dumpster dive.

People

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure

By Milette Millington

Vendors in a line around City Hall with signs in six languages reading “Cut the Red Tape” and “Street Vendors are Small Businesses.”

Street vendors rally at City Hall, call for industry reform

By Milette Millington

City and State event host Jon Lentz introducing speakers for the webinar. Top row from left: Jon Lentz, Joel Berg, Laurie Wheelock. Berg: CEO of Hunger Free America. Wheelock: Executive Director and Counsel at the Public Utility Law Project of New York (PULP). Middle row (left to right): Beth Shyken-Rothbart, Roxanne Persaud, Beth Finkel. Shyken-Rothbart: Senior Counsel for Client Services and New York Policy at the Medicare Rights Center. Persaud: NYS Senator and the Chairperson of the NYS Senate Committee on Social Services. Finkel: State Director of AARP New York. Bottom row: Maritza Davila. Davila: NYS Assemblymember and Chairperson of NYS Assembly Committee on Social Services.

Data matching helps older low-income New Yorkers, lawmakers say

By Milette Millington

British journalist Angela Saini (left) and writer Nona Willis Aronowitz

Books

New York Public Library hosts Patriarchy Smasher event on British journalist’s new book

By Milette Millington

Screenshot of Hip-Hop FinFest Vol. 2 artwork.

Music

Commemorating 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop in New York

By Milette Millington

Katie Schaffer, director of Advocacy and Organizing at the Center for Community Alternatives (CCA), facilitating the Communities Not Cages event.

Advocates push for changes in sentencing laws in New York

By Milette Millington

Screen grab of Interim Chairwoman and Executive Director of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), Arva Rice (left) and Jonathan Darche, giving their testimony at the hearing.

News

NYC Council: NYPD must be held accountable

By Milette Millington

NYC MOPD Commissioner Christina Curry.

People

Black and disability history maker: Christina Curry

By Milette Millington

Annetta Seecharran

News

Asian Americans advance their interests through political advocacy

By Milette Millington

A screenshot of the NYPL webinar on Jan. 26. Top row: host Jill Rothstein, Guide author JD Davids and moderator, Fiona Lowenstein. Bottom row: Guide authors Heather Hogan and Chimere L. Smith.

Health

What life can be like for people with long-term symptoms of COVID

By Milette Millington

Volunteers plant a tree to help reduce global warming and protect the environment.

Ways the media can do better at climate storytelling

By Milette Millington

Screen grab of NYPD 77th Precinct Deputy Inspector Tony R. Brown giving his opening remarks during the United Clergy Council meeting.

News

Brooklyn Police Precinct event honors MLK Day

By Milette Millington

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Housing

The Link Between Faith and Housing

By Milette Millington

Hrbvor (Herbivore) Teas founder Zahira Marmar.

St Kitts and Nevis

How a Caribbean woman started her own tea company

By Milette Millington

RAMPD Founder Lachi, who is a black and blind seen here wearing a brown fur coat, and holding her black, glittery identification cane.

Music

New organization tackles inaccessibility in the music industry

By Milette Millington

A picture of a scene from Piehole's Christmas Mountain installation.

Arts & Entertainment

Interactive Christmas Season installation coming to NYC this week

By Milette Millington

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