{"id":242912,"date":"2026-05-25T08:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:32:12","slug":"moerj-commissioner-on-new-racial-equity-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242912\/","title":{"rendered":"MOERJ commissioner on new racial equity plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills sits down with the Mayor\u2019s Office of Equity and Racial Justice Chief Equity Officer and Commissioner Afua Atta-Mensah to discuss the city\u2019s new racial equity plan.<\/p>\n<p>Atta-Mensah explains that the plan, created within 100 days, involves 45 agencies and 200 staff members and focuses on equitable policies, budgets, staffing and services.<\/p>\n<p>She says it addresses seven priority areas, including economics, housing and community safety.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s \u201cIn Focus,\u201d NY1\u2019s Cheryl Wills sits down with the Mayor\u2019s Office of Equity and Racial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,55,54,56,200],"class_list":["post-242912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-dana-perez","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}