Wednesday was the 11th day in a row of zero new COVID-19 cases in Monroe County. According to Department of Health Officials, there have been 297 COVID-19 related deaths to date, and 5 of those occurred after August 28th. Currently, there are 27 people in the Finger Lakes region being hospitalized for the coronavirus and […]

You may know Jody Watley from her career as a Grammy award winning musician but did you know she is also a successful businesswoman? The Jody Watley signature brand line has just launched the coveted ‘Sanctuary’ luxury soy candle and room fragrance, which has lovely notes of green tea, lemon and vanilla. The brand is […]

NASA officials just announced that they discovered where the leak on the International Space Station is coming from. Flight controllers and astronauts have been trying to identify the source, as the leak has been growing for weeks. NASA announced on Tuesday that they found the leak in the main work area of the Russian Zvezda […]

Have you seen the ‘Social Dilemma’ yet? On the Wake-Up Club we talked about the Netflix show “Social Dilemma” were they talk about how social media controls people feelings. In a rescent study done by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and two University of Rochester psychologist, they found that teenagers who receive […]

On Monday, the Frederick Douglass-Greater Rochester International Airport found out that it would receive $2.4 million in federal funding. The announcement came from senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in a press release that read: “Air travel is vital to the connectivity and success of the Upstate economy, which is why, as New York recovers […]

On Sunday, the Penfield Central School District announced that one of the members of its varsity basketball team tested positive for COVID-19 and now the entire team will enter a mandatory quarantine. The Monroe County Department of Health let the district and school know about the diagnosis as soon as it could. According to the […]

Saturday morning, former lieutenant with the Rochester Police Department, Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan was named interim Police Chief. With this decree, she has become the first woman to lead the RPD. She starts on October 14th and the nationwide search for a permanent police chief will start on June 21st, 2021, after the Democratic Primary. Herriott-Sullivan commented […]

On Thursday, protests demanding justice for Daniel Prude and Breonna Taylor resumed in Rochester. Local Black Lives Matter group Free The People ROC organized a demonstration that began at 6:30 on Jefferson Avenue in Rochester. The march went downtown and made it to the Public Safety Building around 10:00 p.m. The peaceful protestors then sat […]

 Streaming Concert • Premieres October 9 The Mike Epps Hip Hop Party brings together iconic artists from the Golden Age of Hip Hop, for a night of extraordinary performances, made available to you right at home. The Mike Epps Hip Hop Party is an online concert event, featuring performances by: Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, […]

Wear your mask, and bring your stethoscopes! The Rochester Black Nurses Association, a community organization sponsored by the UR School of Nursing that serves as a voice for Black nurses, invites nurses, nursing students, health care professionals, and the community at large to join them as they “call in” racism as a public health crisis, inequities […]

    

— Community Fighting COVID, a volunteer effort to disrupt COVID-19’s impact in communities of color in Rochester, is holding prescreening sessions at the following locations this week: Sunday, May 17: Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church (1772 Clifford Avenue), 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, May 18: Bulls Head Plaza (West Main Street), 3-6 p.m. Tuesday, May 19: Father Tracy Advocacy Center (821 N. […]