Monthly Archives: July, 2013

Treasured Reminders of Our African-American Past

Evidence of lost and forgotten chapters in America and world history merged in the...
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Tumble in The Bronx

The New York Yankees are currently in fourth place in the competitive American League...

New Yorkers Go To Surry, Va. To Challenge Pagones’ “Bogus” Garnishment Of Tawana Brawley's Wages

By Mary Alice Miller A contingent of 100 New Yorkers trekked to Virginia this week...

Self-Empowerment Youth Program Encourages Future African-American Engineers

By Stephen Witt Three hundred of the brightest young African-American minds throughout Central Brooklyn, along...

African-American, Hasidic Jew relationship in Bed-Stuy contentious Allegations of preferential treatment, sexual misconduct & predatory real estate practices persist

By Stephen Witt A cultural and economic turf war between African-Americans and Hasidim Jews continues...

A Matter of Life Support As powers push to close Interfaith, the Bedford Stuyvesant

Yesterday, hearses, pickets and mourners queued up in front of Interfaith Hospital on Atlantic...

Events

Mandela: A Celebration On view at the Schomburg through Saturday, July 20, 2013  The Schomburg Center...

Summer Learnings …Notes from the Schomburg’s Black History 360° Summer Education Institute

"So much work to be done; we adults must know our history better before we can teach it. And in teaching it we become revolutionaries." Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Eddie Castro’s Sports: THE NEW GUNS

If you are a Brooklyn Nets fan, you must feel like its Christmas in...

The Verdict – An Ultimatum For Action

The Parent's Notebook

Black United Fund’s Kermit Eady Has No Confidence In Spitzer For Comptroller

Days after disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer announced his impromptu run for NYC Comptroller,...

Race to Succeed Al Vann in City Council Heats Up

Race for the open city council seat in the 36th District representing Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown...

Latest articles

One Brooklyn Health to Host Free Family Health Fair at Interfaith Campus 

BROOKLYN, NY — One Brooklyn Health (OBH) invites Brooklyn residents to attend the OBH Interfaith Campus Family Health...

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Occasion: Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was asked to give an address regarding the...

Scholars Angela Y. Davis and Jelani Cobb Gift Wisdom and Inspire Intergenerational Reflections at BPL’s Kahn Humanities Event

In a milestone recognition of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United...

DSA/DEMS PRIMARY RESULT Central Brooklyn Flexing and Reflecting

By Nayaba ArindeEditor at Large“If we just come out to vote, like we come...