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Brooklyn Org and National Grid Foundation Launch $700,000 Community Energy Initiative

Fern GillespieA major Brooklyn energy collaboration has been created partnering National Grid Foundation, Brooklyn Org and Brooklyn nonprofits that prepares residents for careers in the growing energy sector and supports residents with home heating and efficiency upgrades. It’s the Brooklyn Energy Initiative, a $700,000 boroughwide...

Women Take the Wheel in NYC’s For-Hire Vehicles, Even as Male Drivers Predominate

Women lead several key driving trade groups in the city, and though female operators are still in the single digits, their numbers are growing. by Jose Martinez As Midori Valdivia takes the wheel of the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission, she is encountering an...

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Saluting Brooklyn’s Black-Owned Businesses

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Black Tech Entrepreneurs Find a Home in NYC — and Challenges to Their Success

New York’s tech workforce is more diverse than other major hubs, but Black startup...

LaFontaine Oliver named next CEO of New York Public Radio

Lafontaine Oliver has been named the next President and CEO of New York Public Radio, effective January 2023. Oliver will...

Business Professor Wallace Ford on Being a Next-Level Entrepreneur

During the last two years, Black-owned businesses have been getting the necessary recognition for...

Critical Milestone: Gas and Electric Networks in Brooklyn to be Completely Fossil-Free by 2050

WALTHAM, MA, and BROOKLYN, NY – National Grid has launched a path to a...

Skincare for Spring with Diana King

By Fern E. Gillispie Diana King, known to millions of New York City radio listeners...

Black News Channel Files for Bankruptcy With Up to $50 Million in Debt

Florida-based network had shut down operations last Friday just two years after launching By Thom...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Rings NY Stock Exchange Bell with Sharon Bowen, History-Making NYSE Chair

By Fern E. GillespieRev. Jesse Jackson ended the 25th Annual Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic...

Leaders Speak up for Homeowners as Predatory Investors Loom

Ironic would appear to be the only word for the next tax lien auction...

Black American Entrepreneurship Has Increased Nearly 40% Since Months Prior to COVID-19

By Victor TrammellFollowing some devastating financial hits, which were suffered in COVID-19’s first throes, Black-owned...

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Local, Organic and Black-owned Groceries at Buy Better Foods

If you are looking for plant-based foods, bulk herbs, supplements, wellness items, etc. then...

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Brooklyn’s New Political Stage

By Nayaba Arinde“Both disgusted and disappointed is how Central Brooklyn Democrats are feeling,” a...

OBH Maternal & Infant Health Series Part 1: “Giving NICU Babies the Best Start.”

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By Mary Alice MillerThe U.S. Supreme Court’s most high-profile decision, this term, upheld birthright...

Our Time At Home: Central Brooklyn and Beyond-Is the Future of Bedford-Stuyvesant Being Shaped Now?

As Democrats regroup, is the DSA looking to control the narrative… and the neighborhoods? By...