In honor of our nation’s 247th birthday, I want to challenge you to do one thing. Stop classifying others with one word –– unless that word is “American.” Much of…
Experts say accurate portrayals of disability are rare as the media often fails to see people with disabilities as part of the audience.
Food. Friends. Family. Football. A win-or-go-home scenario. Those are the staples of Super Bowl Sunday, a clash between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. But this isn’t a…
RISE recently received a game-changing, generational gift: 180 acres of farmland in Oswego County, to boost its Syracuse Refugee Agricultural Program incubator farm and some other aspects of its programming…
If Dreamer Glen knows one thing, it’s about turning pain into purpose. Loss, grief, and sadness have been constants for the Syracuse native over the past two decades, but she…
A story with the highlights of a proud village in Central New York
Aaron Judge hit his 60th home run on Tuesday night for the New York Yankees. 60th. That matched Babe Ruth’s single-season home run total in 1927, a record that stood…
Back in March, I wrote of my frustrations with the MLB’s nonchalance with the popularity of baseball as a sport and obsession with money. But watching as two-time Cy Young…
Baseball was my first love, becoming the genesis of countless, timeless memories. The crack of the bat, the cheering crowd, hearing Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” after each Yankee…
"Folks have pushed the narrative of vulnerable people's lives being disposable for this entire pandemic," read a tweet earlier this month. "Rather than ignore people with complex medical conditions, or…
Many workers formerly classified as "low-skilled" were deemed "essential" at the beginning of the pandemic. They're slowly getting the old label back, and it's problematic.