When: Saturday, August 15, 2020 Time: 10:00 AM–2:00 PM Place: Parking lot of the Boys and Girls Club of Rochester, 500 Genesee Street, Rochester, NY 14611   9th Annual Community Health Fair   The Black Physicians Network and the Rochester Black Nurses Association Join the Rochester Jamaican Organization, Rochester West Indian festival Organization, Inc., and Boys and Girls Club […]

No pain no gain. New York will release protocols to safely reopening gym on Monday Governor Andrew Cuomo said Friday. We all know the gym is one of the worst places to be if you’re trying to prevent the spread of germs but many are still ready to get back to pumping iron. According to […]

  The ban on all non-essential traveling between Canada and in the United States has been extended for another month from August 21st due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to reports this is the 5th delay on reopening the US Canadian border due to the rise of coronavirus infections in the United States. Truck drivers […]

Disgraced R&B singer R Kelly finds himself in the news twice this week. According to reports the feds found over one million dollars in the hidden bank account that belong to R Kelly. R Kelly was claiming he’s broke but Federal investigators were wondering how his lawyers were being paid. Investigators did some research and […]

When: Saturday, August 15, 2020 Time: 10:00 AM–2:00 PM Place: Parking lot of the Boys and Girls Club of Rochester, 500 Genesee Street, Rochester, NY 14611   9th Annual Community Health Fair   The Black Physicians Network and the Rochester Black Nurses Association Join the Rochester Jamaican Organization, Rochester West Indian festival Organization, Inc., and Boys and Girls Club […]

In a letter from the Rochester City School District, Superintendent Dr. Lesli Myers-Small. At the end of last month, we shared our plan to reopen Rochester schools. Since that time, we have been deliberating the best way to ensure that all our students receive access to high-quality grade-level instruction in the safest way possible. We […]

Dr Joel Frater is President of the Rochester Jamaican Organization Inc. and Dr. Natalie Leblanc, Black Nurses Association, called into the WDKX Wake-Up Club Friday Morning to talking about the Community Health Fair Saturday, August 15th at the Boys and Girls Club 500 Genesee St. starting at 10am to 2pm.  

Currently living in Brooklyn the producer and musician, Spencer. donated $10,000 to the Boys & Girls club in his home town of Rochester. He graduated from Penfield High School in 2016. His independent music label, 4AD brought in $5,000, $1,000 from his junteeth hit “I Had A dream” and the rest was from a match […]

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. […]

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