New York City Council Member Amanda Farías led the Council on Thursday, April 30, in advancing Resolution 183, which calls ...

Have you heard that New York City Council Member Amanda Farías has been named the council’s new majority leader? The Bronx council member’s supporters want to make sure you do. Farías’ staff wanted to ...

“Where are the men calling this out?” asks City Council Majority Leader Amanda Farías, retweeting a council Women’s Caucus’s post on the sick “sucker-punch a woman in the face” TikTok trend that urges ...

New York’s City Council is considering legislation that might upend the way shoppers check out at grocery stores. The council is considering a bill that would require stores with self-checkout lanes ...

Bronx Council Member and Majority Leader Amanda Farías was recently facing a dilemma, but not the kind lawmakers usually face. She needed to find something model-worthy to wear as a participant in the ...

New year, slightly new City Council, same speaker. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams was reelected by a unanimous vote at the council’s charter meeting Wednesday – a foregone conclusion leading up ...

Got Milk? Breast milk, that is. A Bronx lawmaker has introduced legislation that would require the New York City government to create a “municipal human milk bank” to collect, store and distribute ...

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when Black Americans who had been enslaved in Texas finally received word that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring ...