The Office for People with Disabilities Turns 50 hudsonvalleypress.com/2025/12/31/the… via @hvpress

$1 Million for Dutchess Community College hudsonvalleypress.com/2025/12/31/1-m… via @hvpress

Jenkins Sworn in as County Executive hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/07/jen… via @hvpress

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

OC Legislators Take Oath of Office for New Term hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/07/oc-… via @hvpress

Dutchess County Legislature Has New Dem Majority hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/07/dut… via @hvpress

Black America’s Cultural Giants Lost in 2025 hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/07/bla… via @hvpress

Powerful tribute to #ReneeGood. Artist Noval Noir painted a live portrait of her to honor her life at the memorial in Minneapolis. Art speaks when words fall short. We must continue to tell her story and Say Her Name.

Venning Announces Transition in March hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/07/ven… via @hvpress

Yonkers to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/07/yon… via @hvpress

Claudette Colvin, who was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL., has died at 86. At the time in 1955, she’d been a junior in high school studying Black history in class. She later recalled that “History had me glued to the

Dr. Mary McLymore Makes History hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/14/dr-… via @hvpress

ICE arrested Arlit Martinez two days before her 15-year-old son died from cancer. The Maryland mother of four was headed to work when she was detained. Despite urgent pleas from her family, lawyers, and doctors, she was not released to say goodbye. She is reportedly still in

Kenney Apartments Residents Demand Answers hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/14/ken… via @hvpress

County Board Welcomes Two New Legislators hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/14/cou… via @hvpress

BREAKING: Native American citizens are being detained by ICE and sent to a camp Fort Snelling, a former Native American concentration camp where Native women, children, and elders were once imprisoned in brutal conditions, where many died from disease, starvation, and exposure.

📺On January 16, 1986, an excerpt of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech aired at the end of America’s number one prime time television program, ‘The Cosby Show,’ four days before the first federal observance of #MLKDay in the United States

SUNY Grant Helps DCC Students Get to Class hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/14/sun… via @hvpress

I put these two clips of Daddy together because I want to share him saying “I’m tired of marching,” then, after continuing the multifaceted work of nonviolence, saying “I’ve been to the mountaintop.” The 2nd clip is from the speech he gave the night before he was assassinated.

AG Letitia James Applauds New Capital One Settlement hudsonvalleypress.com/2026/01/14/ag-… via @hvpress