The symposium focused on the environmental challenges that many low-income and Black and brown communities face, such as pollution, lack of affordable housing and gentrification, and ways that young ...

For a time, Fran Lopate — a Jewish mother of four from Flatbush — became America's most recognizable Italian spokesmodel.

Mendoza was beaten over the head with a skateboard and then stabbed to death. His family said he was a “quiet kid” who did ...