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UPDATE Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition Go Bronx-wide Relaunching as “Our Bronx”

By SÍLE MOLONEY
At its 52nd annual meeting, held at Lehman College on Saturday, Feb. 28, the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) announced its new organizational name and identity, Our Bronx, marking the organization’s borough-wide expansion and what was described as its deepened commitment to building power for racial justice and economic democracy across The Bronx. NWBCCC first hinted at its future boroughwide expansion during its 50th anniversary celebration.

UPDATE Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Iran and the Possibility of an Attack on the United States

By DAVID GREENE
This week, we asked readers their opinion on the current situation in Iran, and if they think America could be attacked at home in retaliation for having started a bombing campaign, together with Israel, against Iran on Feb. 28, killing the Iranian leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as around 175 people, mostly children, after a school was struck. Since then, Reuters report that around 3,134 Iranians have been killed. 

UPDATE Lawyers Announce Release of Marble Hill Student Dylan Contreras from ICE Detention 

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Lawyers for detained Marble Hill high school student Dylan Josue Lopez Contreras said Wednesday, March 18, that the student has been released from Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the Pennsylvania facility run by the U.S. Department of Immigration, Customs & Enforcement (ICE), where they said he had been “unjustly imprisoned for nearly 10 months.” The announcement of his release follows Dylan’s highly publicized courthouse arrest outside a scheduled immigration hearing at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan last May, as reported.

UPDATE Rivera & Bronx Doctors Continue Campaign to Pass the NY Health Act ahead of Budget Finalization

By SÍLE MOLONEY
State Sen. Gustavo Rivera (S.D. 33) joined two Bronx-based doctors at an event at Lehman College on Saturday, Feb. 28, as he continued a years-long campaign to urge Bronxites to call on his colleagues in State government to become champions of The NY Health Act and ensure its passage during the current State legislative session in Albany. Legislators are currently preparing to finalize the next State budget.

UPDATE Bronx Daycare Provider & Husband Get 25 Years to Life for Murder of Nicholas Feliz Dominici in Fentanyl Poisoning Case

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, March 4, that the operator of a Bronx home daycare center and her husband were each sentenced to 25 years to life in prison by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy for the accidental death due to fentanyl poisoning of 22-month-old Nicholas Feliz Domenici on Sept. 15, 2023, and for the exposure of three other children to fentanyl who survived the poisoning.