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Asserting $3M for Culturally Particular Gender Based mostly Violence Initiative Photograph Credit score: Gerardo Romo / NYC Council Media Unit. Queens Council Members Sandra Ung, Linda Lee, and Shekar Krishnan joined Brooklyn Council Member Susan Zhuang and anti-gender-based violence advocates at Metropolis Corridor on Tuesday to have a good time a brand new $3 million initiative, which funds organizations that present culturally competent companies for immigrant survivors of home violence. The elected officers joined members of The Collective, a coalition of culturally-specific gender-based violence service suppliers serving immigrant and BIPOC survivors in New York Metropolis, to have a good time the…

After police mentioned an 18-year-old girl took her personal life whereas in NYPD custody, {the teenager}’s household is now elevating questions on her final hours alive — demanding solutions and calling for extra info to be launched. In keeping with police, Sanyah Cheatham was discovered unconscious inside a cell at a stationhouse on Longwood Avenue simply earlier than 1 a.m. Saturday. She was pronounced lifeless a short while later at Lincoln Hospital. However simply hours earlier than her arrest, Cheatham’s mom mentioned her daughter was all smiles at a household July Fourth cookout in Crotona Park. “She was happy and…