Damaso Reyes

@damasoreyes

Executive & Investigative Editor @nyamnews, founding editor @nyblacklight. Living kidney donor. Media Literacy Expert. Retweets ≠ endorsements, He/His.

amsterdamnews.com/blacklight Joined February 2010

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Damaso Reyes @damasoreyes Nov 10, 2024

Okay, so we're all going over here now. For real this time?

Damaso Reyes @damasoreyes May 30, 2025

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amsterdamnews.com Gun Violence Has always Been a public health Crisis We were all set to add our comments to the Sha’Carri Richardson affair and the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse, but they are difficult issues and require more time and space alloca...

Damaso Reyes @damasoreyes Apr 17, 2025

Since 1994, a federal law has mandated that schools give one-year suspensions to students caught with a gun on campus. In Blacklight’s latest, we reveal how this zero-tolerance response fails to address the root causes of gun carrying. bit.ly/3Yz1zJk via @NYAmNews

amsterdamnews.com The legacy of zero-tolerance Part 1: How schools respond to students who carry guns Our two-part series examines the impact of schools’ zero-tolerance response to students carrying guns on campus.

Damaso Reyes @damasoreyes Mar 17, 2025

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amsterdamnews.com Black Male Initiative at CUNY celebrates 20 years of empowering young men of color in higher... The Black Male Initiative (BMI) at CUNY is celebrating 20 years of empowering Black and Latino males in higher education.

Damaso Reyes @damasoreyes Mar 14, 2025

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amsterdamnews.com New law reveals NYPD stops more Black NYers using low-level encounters The appropriately named How Many Stops Act recently revealed just how many stops the NYPD conducted last year since the law went into effect.