By Gregory Lewis, Library Assistant - Technology Specialist In honor of Black History month, MCNY Library wants to celebrate The 1619 Project! It began as a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine series created by [...]
Around this time last year, a small band of alumni, students, faculty, and staff started up a conversation at a library roundtable on the severe disparities in maternal health in the U.S. That conversation had [...]
December 1st is World AIDS Day. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) HIV continues to be a major global public health issue. So far, the disease has claimed 40.1 million [33.6–48.6 million] lives; and [...]
The Black Maternal Health Initiative Peer leadership Group is organizing a community discussion around the issues raised by the recent documentary Aftershock. Save the date -- Thursday, Nov. 3rd 5-6:30-- and [...]
By Natalia Sucre, Research and Writing Librarian The second virtual roundtable hosted by the Peer Leadership Group for the MCNY Library Black Maternal Health Initiative (BMHI) flowed directly from the narrower focus our first roundtable. [...]
By Natalia Sucre, Research and Writing Librarian The Pre-Talk In the weeks leading up to the first virtual roundtable hosted by MCNY’s Black Maternal Health Initiative (BMHI), BMHI student and alumni peer leaders and librarians [...]
Since the first week of the summer semester, a group of MCNY alumni and students has met weekly to share stories, perspectives, research on the Black maternal health crisis. These Peer Leaders have been working [...]
https://www.mcny.edu/library/black-maternal-health-initiative/ The MCNY Black Maternity Health Initiative (BMHI) is a student and community engagement project that seeks to respond to the existential crisis of Black maternal health in the U.S., New York City, and most [...]
On April 13, 2022, Tony (Anthony) W. Marx, President of The New York Public Library (NYPL) issued a powerful email statement that reminds us of the rights and freedoms that are often taken for granted. [...]
CHICAGO — The American Library Association (ALA) has awarded its third Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant to the Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) and the Sara Hightower Regional Library System in Georgia. The award was [...]
