by Brittany Davis | Jan 3, 2019 | Articles, Legal Blog, Policy & Legislation
By: BRITTANY DAVIS Early this summer, the Governor of New York signed a new law that strengthens the state’s efforts to punish sex traffickers and protect vulnerable children1 by making it a crime for those over the age of 21 to promote or benefit from the...
by Kelli Ross | Jun 28, 2017 | #InContext
Jessie Ethel Sampter was born on March 22, 1883, in New York City to Rudolph and Virginia (Kohlberg) Sampter, prosperous second-generation German Jews. She and her sister Elvie were raised in a mansion on Fifth Avenue in Harlem, which housed three generations of an...