A Rochester civil rights icon has died at age 88. Minister Franklin Florence, Senior Pastor of the Central United Church of Christ, died Wednesday morning according to his family. Florence was the first president of Freedom, Independence, God, Honor Today…known as FIGHT. The civil rights organization was founded in the wake of Rochester’s 1964 riot, […]
Plastic baggies containing candy and antisemitic flyers were distributed around an Irondequoit Neighborhood on Sunday according to town officials. The fliers were left at the end of driveways, and the flyers blamed prominent Jews for various perceived wrongs, including “eliminating religion, replacing it with science and materialism.” Irondequoit police are working with the Jewish Federation […]
A third victim of a stabbing inside a Henrietta home has died, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Masuda Banahi, 43, of Virginia, was stabbed January 11th in a home on Kathy Drive. She died of her injuries at Strong Memorial Hospital. Her brother, 29-year-old Rajab Banahi, stabbed Masuda, plus his father and mother […]