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We are thrilled to share an important update with our cherished community. As we continue to grow and achieve new heights, it's crucial that our leadership team evolves to meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the promotion of Tyrell Ford to the role of Executive Director.

The Daniel’s Law Coalition is celebrating a $2 million allocation in the state Senate and Assembly’s one house budget bills for a pilot program that will change the response to people experiencing mental health or substance use crises.

Thomas O’Neil-White sits down with Dontaya Davis and Alia Williams, community organizers for Voice Buffalo. The two are working locally to boost the Ebony Alert system, a new initiative to prioritize missing and exploited Black youth, who are disproportionately represented in missing children reports.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is requesting $185.5 million from the legislature with a $31.5 million increase for the Erie County Sheriff's Office budget this upcoming year. "Invest that in our futures. Invest that in our community," Alia Williams, organizer at VOICE Buffalo, said. "It's no secret that investment in youth programming increases the quality of life of our young people, of our families and our community as a whole."

After years of organizing by directly-impacted leaders, the Clean Slate Act(S7551A /A1029C) was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on November 16th, 2023. The act goes into effect on November 16th, 2024 and will affect 2.3 million New Yorkers allowing them to finally have the opportunity to thrive.

Check out our photo gallery of Trunk or Treat 2023. Thank you to our event sponsors and everyone who made this event a fun time!

Organizers of Voice Buffalo are on a mission to better the relationship between parents and their children so they don’t go missing. Voice Buffalo put together a group session for fathers to bring them together and highlight the awareness of being present in a child's life.

"This is what peace looks like" was just one of the many chants that filled the streets of Buffalo today during the March to End Gun Violence. Community partners and neighbors gathered together to honor the lives lost to gun violence.

VOICE Buffalo will hold a candidates forum for those running for Buffalo Common Council seats in East Side communities. Organizers said the aim of the event was "to foster open dialogue and provide a space to better understand the candidates’ stance on community issues."

The Campaign to End Qualified Immunity, Edifye, VOICE Buffalo, VOCAL NY, End QI NY, and Americans Against Qualified Immunity are giving back to East Buffalo.The organizations hosted a block party at Bethel AME Church on Michigan Saturday offering free grocery distribution, a visit from University of Buffalo athletes, a community engagement speaker, and brake light check and repair.

For some people, it's hard to believe tragedy struck Buffalo a year ago. Others feel it just happened. As May 14 approaches, emotions are running high. On a day when community members should be celebrating their mothers, they instead are left with the scars of that day and the pain a gunman has caused.

In the year since the racist massacre, residents tell Capital B that as long as there’s only one supermarket in Cold Springs, that location will always be a target for another white supremacist to attack. Residents had also hoped that once their food insecurities made national and international headlines, more would have been done to revamp, revive, and rehabilitate the community. They are still waiting.

The mass shooting at the East Side Tops Markets last May immediately spotlighted the scarcity of fresh grocery options for residents in predominantly Black communities in Buffalo. Decades of disinvestment meant the Jefferson Avenue neighborhood had only one major supermarket – and the massacre closed it for months.

In our weekly “Producers’ Picks” episode we bring you highlights of recent important interviews with: Jerome Wright, NYS HALT Solitary campaign on a NYS study that shows disproportionately harsh discipline of people of color in prisons, Rev. Denise Walden Glenn and Tyrell Ford from VOICE Buffalo on criminal justice and re-entry issues

It was a party other than Republican and Democrat and one you won't see on your ballot this election season, but rather a political party held to try and raise election awareness at the Delavan Grider Community Center. The goal of Saturday's 'Souls to the Polls' event was to engage voters in East Buffalo to try and get higher voter turnout than a typical midterm election.

There is a push to change how police around the state are responding to mental health crises. Advocates for this change held a town hall at the Johnnie B. Willey Pavilion to honor the life of Daniel Prude, who died at the hands of police when they violently arrested him in March 2020.

On the east side of Buffalo, N.Y., to live means to clean, work, and wait for the bus amidst reminders of horrific violence. “Every day, you see people out here crying and stuff," said Benjamin Foster as he dropped his stepson at the school bus.

It was one month ago, 52-year-old Margus Morrison's family spoke with 7 News, just two days after he was tragically killed, along with 9 others, at Tops on May 14. Morrison was known for having a contagious laugh and energy that could be felt a mile away. His brother, Frederick, and their pastor shared what it has been like moving forward and the change they hope to see.

Still unnerved by the deadly mass shootings in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and at a school in Uvalde, Texas, in particular, what seemed like millions of people this weekend took to America’s streets as part of the March For Our Lives protests that sprinkled the country in an effort to compel Congress to finally take decisive steps toward real gun control.

Three years ago, advocates fought to reform the racist and two-tiered cash bail system in New York. At the time, the unfair bail laws were wreaking havoc, particularly on communities of color, allowing a system where those accused of crimes who had money could return home with family to await their day in court, while those who could not afford bail languished behind bars, sometimes for years.