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The organization’s president and CEO for 28 years, she plans to step down in September 2022. Simeon Banister, vice president for community programs, has been promoted to executive vice president.
Are we still able to have national heroes like World War II’s Four Chaplains? Or have we become too divided by politics and ideology?
On Sept. 11, 2001, the world as most Americans knew it changed forever. Rochester Beacon readers recall that day and reflect on its impact.
The president of the United Christian Leadership Ministry is guided by a sense of justice grounded in spirituality. At 75, he is “still fighting for justice, still fighting for liberation, still believing that God is with me.”
Rochesterians Pepin Accilien, a native of Haiti, and Ed Hourihan, a board member of the Haitian Health Foundation, believe the Caribbean island nation can overcome its recent travails and troubled past.
Contrary to the declines seen in estimates released in May, Monroe County and the metro area gained population from 2010 to 2020.
With COVID-19 cases rising again and an inadequate supply of beds in shelters, the plight of the area’s homeless population is likely to worsen.
City Roots Community Land Trust and Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Rochester will receive the funds from Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit.
For the Rochester Land Bank Corp., which turns abandoned and vacant homes into saleable additions to the city’s housing stock and tax base, the last year has posed new challenges.
Rochester has a long tradition of welcoming people from abroad feeling violence and persecution. But federal policies and the pandemic are reducing resettlements here to a historic low.