Watch the full video interview by clicking the image below!   [[{“fid”:”640″,”view_mode”:”full”,”fields”:{“format”:”full”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”tagName”:”IMG”,”src”:”https%3A//edit-projects.45press.com/jeffries/sites/projects.45press.com/jeffries/files/wysiwyg_uploaded/MSNBC_0.jpg”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“class”:”media-element file-full”,”height”:”347″,”style”:”width: 300px; height: 164px;”,”width”:”636″}}]] 1.  It was day 2 of Healthcare.gov 2.0.  After a six-week tech surge the site released its new version late November 30th. Shiny new beginnings for Obamacare? We shall see. One thing is for sure, Chris Hayes argues: it’s […]

  Inside Bright Hope Baptist Church, the luminaries of Philadelphia’s black political world gathered for the funeral of former Representative William H. Gray III in July. Dozens of politicians — city, state and federal — packed the pews as former President Bill Clinton offered a stirring eulogy, quoting Scripture and proudly telling the crowd that […]

Local leaders are making a push to find ways to stop a rash of assaults believed to be associated with the so-called “knockout” game. Brooklyn Representatives Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clark, Borough President-elect Eric Adams and members of the borough’s Jewish community publicly denounced the violence during a press conference at the Crown Heights Youth […]

A consortium of Brooklyn’s top African-American leadership on Monday condemned in harsh terms the knockout game favored by some school gangs in minority communities, a senseless attack that has spread fear throughout Jewish areas of south Brooklyn over the past few weeks. For the first time in history, come January, Brooklyn’s entire political leadership will […]

Brooklyn has the buzz, Barclays Center and — when it comes to black politics — it now has the power. In this city election cycle, the borough produced the “firsts” for the city’s black politicians — making it clear that Brooklyn has definitively displaced Harlem as the seat of the city’s black political establishment. Harlem […]

Our Time Press: There have been a number of glitches in the start-up of the Affordable Care Act.  What is the impact of the act on the African-American community? Congressman Hakeem Jeffries: There are certainly challenges with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.  But whenever there are groundbreaking changes in public policy there will be some […]

[[{“fid”:”597″,”view_mode”:”teaser”,”fields”:{“format”:”teaser”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”tagName”:”IMG”,”src”:”https%3A//edit-projects.45press.com/jeffries/sites/projects.45press.com/jeffries/files/styles/congress_image_medium/public/wysiwyg_uploaded/jeffries1.jpg%3Fitok%3DRPy491BK”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“class”:”media-element file-teaser”,”height”:”300″,”style”:”width: 300px; height: 225px; float: right;”,”width”:”400″}}]]Rep. Hakeem Jeffries spoke to about three dozen supporters of Interfaith Medical Center inside the hospital’s cafeteria on Monday evening, and provided an update on what Congress is doing to help keep the beleaguered medical center open. The entire New York City congressional delegation, Jeffries said, sent a letter […]

  Residents of an affordable housing building in Bed-Stuy say their management company has only just begun restoring heat to their apartments— eight years after taking over the building. Residents of 305 Decatur St., a Section 8 building in Bed-Stuy, say they’ve lived without heat since before their management company, Shinda Management Corp., took over […]

  [[{“fid”:”596″,”view_mode”:”teaser”,”fields”:{“format”:”teaser”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”tagName”:”IMG”,”src”:”https%3A//edit-projects.45press.com/jeffries/sites/projects.45press.com/jeffries/files/styles/congress_image_medium/public/wysiwyg_uploaded/Jeffries.jpg%3Fitok%3DfGK_owT7″,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“class”:”media-element file-teaser”,”style”:”width: 300px; height: 200px; float: right;”}}]]Those concerned over the possibility of massive flood insurance rate hikes can breathe a sigh of relief. At least for now. Congress unveiled a deal struck last week to postpone the rate hikes that started taking effect last month because of the Biggert-Waters Act, a 2012 law that […]