By Fern GillespieWe Outside! A Brooklyn Juneteenth was a celebration that hit the Plaza at 300 Ashland. Sponsored by 651ARTS, in partnership with Harlem’s The Soapbox...
By Fern Gillespie During New York City’s toxic Canadian smoke haze, the air quality reached crisis levels. Within the week, over 1,000 asthma-related emergency hospital visits...
By Fern GillespieBrooklyn Senator Zellnor Myrie wants to give many New Yorkers who have completed their criminal sentences a Clean Slate opportunity for jobs and housing....
Fern GillespieStrokes are a health crisis facing many Black Americans. The CDC reports that Black Americans are 50 percent more likely to have a stroke as...
By Fern GillespieFor over 150 years, Brooklyn Community Services (BCS) has been a landmark social service agency in New York City. During the 1800s, it became...