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Pride month is rapidly approaching, and we’re so excited for our second annual Pride event in Yorktown— and this year it will be bigger and better! Celebrate Pride with us all day long on Saturday June 11, 2022. All are welcome!  MARCH AT 1PM We will be gathering at the Yorktown Town Hall at 363 Underhill AveContinue reading “PRIDE 2022!”

Local elections matter and no matter what you believe in or who you support, just get out and vote. Exercise those rights! Yorktown and Lakeland Central School Districts will be holding an election for Board of Education trustees, the school budget, and various propositions. If you are registered to vote, you can vote in schoolContinue reading “vote!”

Please join us on Sunday May 22 at Granite Knolls Pavilion for family fun day! All are welcome! We will be raising money to help sponsor a garden planter for Yorktown’s first ever inclusive playground and sensory garden! We will have art stations for kids of all ages, live music, a speaker, and an authorContinue reading “Family Fun Day!”

The National Alliance on Mental Illness will host its annual donation drive and walk to benefit the organization and call attention to the mental health needs in our country. Mental healthcare is healthcare despite being treated extraneously by too many. The consequences of mental health stigma are devastating. Join us on Sunday May 7 atContinue reading “NAMI Walk”

Join us Sunday March 27 as we celebrate Women’s Herstory Month with an open mic at the Jack DeVito Gazebo from 1-3. We will open the mic to anyone who wants to share a story, poem, song, (or anything at all!) to honor the month. Donations will be collected to benefit CARE: A Ukrainian CrisisContinue reading “Women’s Herstory Month”

In honor of Black History Month and in partnership with John C Hart Memorial Library, Yorktown for Justice is proud to present a series of age-leveled teach-ins for the community. The event will take place from 10am-1pm in the community room of the library on Saturday February 26th. At 10am, librarian Daphne Revie will leadContinue reading “Black History Month Teach-Ins”

Amidst the latest COVID surge, our local urgent cares have been working hard to ensure our community receives the necessary healthcare we need. We want to show a small token of gratitude by treating them to some goodies! It is the least we can do for our healthcare heroes who care for us every day.Continue reading “Thank You, Urgent Care!”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: YorktownForJustice@gmail.com Yorktown, New York, November 10, 2021 – Yorktown for Justice (YFJ) denounces the racist remarks targeting Yorktown Town Councilman Vishnu Patel at a Yorktown GOP victory party held on November 2, 2021 and calls for formal policy measures to address systemic racism and other forms of bigotry in Yorktown. InContinue reading “YFJ Press Release in Response to Yorktown GOP Racial Slur”

Come visit our booth on October 10, 2021 from 11-5 at the Yorktown Fall Festival and Street Fair! Our GoFundMe was fully funded for the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers! Thank you so much to everyone who contributed. We are honored to bring the oldest indigenous dance troupe in NY to Yorktown. They will be kickingContinue reading “YFJ at Yorktown Fall Festival and Street Fair!”

We, the undersigned, fully support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) efforts in our Northern Westchester schools. Many DEI measures are implementations of the New York State Education Department’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education framework coming down from state leadership in Albany, and for good reason. The introduction to this framework states: “The CR-S framework helps educators createContinue reading “Sign On To A DEI Support Letter”