Mai Abdullah is civic-minded. She’s a Sudanese immigrant and an Arabic court interpreter. The mother of three also serves on the Rush Henrietta school district's Board of Education. She’s also part of a growing population in Monroe County: She has no

He probably didn't realize it at the time, but Sanford Coley's life took a dramatic turn in the mid-1990s. That's when Coley, who is now 66, got a job at CleanCraft, a commercial cleaning company in Rochester. He had already interviewed for 10 or 15 other

Activists have called for the city to scrap its plan to hire a law firm to review Rochester Police Department policies, procedures, and training. City Council will vote on Tuesday whether to hire the firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr — WilmerHale

Frustration boiled in the spring in reaction to George Floyd's death in Minneapolis and other police-involved deaths of Black people elsewhere. Those deaths motivated action on just about every level of Rochester, from Kevin Myles has seen this before. He

Feminist, journalist, and social activist Gloria Steinhem has been the face of the women's movement since the 1960s. The producer of a new play presented by the Jewish Community Center's CenterStage said even a global pandemic can't silence Steinem's

The death of Daniel Prude following his suffocation while in the custody of Rochester police last March has made headlines across the country. A 1998 graduate of Brighton High School who is now living in Atlanta said the news hit her like a gut punch. Jen

Ernest Flagler-Mitchell of the Monroe County Legislature said Wednesday that he wants to know why news of Prude’s death didn’t reach him and other county leaders earlier. Flagler-Mitchell and the other members of the legislature’s Black and Asian caucus

Janine is one of thousands of local activists who took to the streets in the days following the release of a video of Daniel Prude suffocating while being restrained by Rochester police. The 32 - year - old, who asked that we not use her last name, said

Rochester City Council President Loretta Scott has begun to issue the first round of subpoenas for an investigation, initiated by Council, into the death of Daniel Prude. The initial subpoenas were directed at Mayor Lovely Warren’s office, the Rochester

Imagine being quarantined for weeks inside a small (by Rochester standards) New York City apartment by yourself. Well, there are a couple of cats, too. "I went out last night to see a friend," said Lori Hamilton, "and they were, like, 'You did not tell us