NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray leverages the power of Maxine Waters to educate New Yorkers about mental health resources.

The First Lady of NYC emphasizes that her city embodies true resilience, strength and the human spirit.

Television

On one of our new favorite shows, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, the special guest last night was Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio! MUST READ: Bill Clinton & NY Mayor Bill De Blasio Announce Harlem EatUp! Food Festival During the Keep It 100 segment, Wilmore took questions from Twitter users and one of those […]

Chirlane McCray is the wife of NYC’s mayor, Bill de Blasio has been labeled a bad mother and criticized for her refreshing honesty stemmed from her cover story in the latest issue of New York Magazine. Must Read: Nia Long Talks Juggling Motherhood & Her Career: ‘I’m So Not Balanced’ [EXCLUSIVE] Media outlets like New […]

Far too many moms are afraid to admit that motherhood is harder and way more annoying than it looks and many moms need time away from their bundles of joy, but you’d never hear them say it out loud. Must Read: Bill deBlasio’s Landslide Win Gives Black New Yorkers Hope New York Magazine did a […]

NYC’s first lady has given her first solo speech on immigration and she wants the world to know that she is a “G.” No, really. “Now, I am a G-two, a second generation immigrant,” Chirlane McCray said during her speech. McCray’s first speech since her hubby, Bill deBlasio was sworn in as NYC’s mayor was one […]

New York Magazine is the latest publication that can’t tell the difference between Black faces. Just one day after Bill de Blasio took his oath of office, the New York-centric weekly confused his African-American wife, Chirlane McCray, with a woman who falsely accused her father of rape! MUST READ: BEAUTIFUL NEWS: Chirlane McCray Becomes NYC’s Second Black First […]

Writer, poet, editor, political strategist and feminist Chirlane McCray, 58, became the second Black First Lady of New York City last night with the exhilarating election of her husband, Bill de Blasio, 52, who became Gotham’s first Democratic mayor in 20 years defeating Republican Joe Lhota. The power couple have been together close to two decades, and have […]

In a piercing poem entitled “I Used To Think” published in the 1983 poetry collection, Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology, writer and editor Chirlane McCray, wife of NYC mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio, tackles narrow European beauty standards and the White supremacy that undergirds them head on. The poem stands as a powerful literary example of why […]