Fighting for the Kids – Literally
March 2, 2016“Ninja Nish” Nisha Ramroop-Alonso is fighting in her very first amateur boxing tournament – the famed Golden Gloves. But she’s also fighting […]
Topic: Charity
Queens Nun Collects Veggies for Seniors
March 1, 2016Once a week for nearly forty years, 77-year-old Sr. Elisabeth Anne travels all the way to Hunts Point Produce Market in the […]
Food Crisis Among Seniors In Bed-Stuy
March 1, 2016In Bedford Stuyvesant seniors are suffering from chronic health conditions at some of the highest rates in the country, because they can’t […]
Help Pregnancy Centers to Step Up
February 29, 2016Abortion clinics are disappearing at the fastest pace on record. In the last five years, at least 162 providers in the US […]
Brooklyn Aids Syrian Refugees
February 8, 2016Brooklyn responds to the war in Syria that is creating an overwhelming refugee crisis. A local Eastern Bishop, Gregory Mansour, calls all […]
Shelter Residents Speak Out
February 2, 2016Hoping to clean up New York City’s shelter system, Mayor Bill de Blasio just released a “shelter scorecard” that catalogues safety violations. Residents of […]
Prison Reform
January 31, 2016Special guests Traci Leach and Crystal Degnitz-Roldan, participants of the Hour Working Women Reentry Program join Monsignor Kieran Harrington to discuss the […]
Hot and Cold, CHIPS is there
January 15, 2016The cold weather is coming back, with officials concerned for the welfare of the city’s homeless. Our Konrad Aderer visited one organization […]
“Stewards of the Land”
January 15, 2016An international Catholic charity based in Brooklyn is helping churches in Africa battle famine, as our Michelle Powers reports.
Church to Church, Brooklyn to Haiti
January 12, 2016Six years after the devastating earthquake struck Haiti, Currents correspondent Michelle Powers reports on one organization that is helping churches rebuild on […]