Bridge Street Development Corporation’s Innovative Community and Business Initiatives in Central Brooklyn By Fern Gillespie When major institutions like the Bridge Street Development Corporation partner with...
By Fern GillespieOne Brooklyn Health (OBH) believes that low-income Brooklynites should not have ten years taken off their life because of a zip code. This November,...
By Fern E. Gillespie People are trying to adjust to the post-Covid era that includes rising gun violence and now a healthcare crisis with the criminalization...
By Fern Gillespie The recent Supreme Court decision West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, which limits the E.P.A.’s power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants,...
By Fern E. GillespieIn 1972, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, stood at the podium at the Concord Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the church where...