Monday night, The Billie Holiday Theatre kicked off its new season with "Revolutionary Love," bringing together an extraordinary lineup for a conversation on its Fulton Street stage: playwright Lynn Nottage, actresses Lillias White and Adriane Lenox, activist and designer Qween Jean, and actor Marcus Paul James, joined in dialogue...
“Black Summers also became a powerful, tender, and hopeful collection about the personal and racial traumas of Black childhood.” - Desiree Cooper, Black Summers
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by Fern GillespieKalilah Moon, Executive Director and CEO of Drive Change, has spent 20 years as a workforce disruptor directing innovative social justice workforce programs that inspire young Black and Brown New Yorkers.With the Bed-Stuy-based nonprofit Drive Change, she opens up opportunities in the...
Op-Ed By: Hetal Tangal, MD, Associate Medical Director for Ambulatory Care, One Brooklyn Health
Vaccination records should be part of the back-to-school checklist, just like...
Joint Op-Ed By : Dr. Cyrus McCalla, Chairman, Obstetrics & Gynecology , One Brooklyn Health and Gloria McCalla, RN, Director of Nursing Maternal Child Health, Medical/Surgical...
A Story of Community, Nutrition, and Inclusion for All Ages
by Yvette Moore
Lessons about community, aging, inclusion, joy, family, healthy eating… and even legacy, are at the heart of In the Mix: Veggie Power, a colorful children’s book by respected Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Dr. Geraldine...
Breast milk is especially important for premature and medically fragile babies because it is the ideal nutrition for their developing bodies. Premature infants have...
The First Quincy Street Community Garden and the Vulcan Society, FDNY, invite the community to gather for “We Speak Their Names,” commemorating the 25th anniversary of September 11. The ceremony will honor the twelve Black FDNY firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice that day....
