Great People on the Ground. The last weekend of April Earth Month, we celebrated some of the greatest: a preteen gardener and a Composter Community Activist & a Muralist, Construction...
On Friday, May 19th 2017 hundreds of Brooklyn community members will celebrate legacy and dance the night away at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple for Magnolia Tree...
Yesterday, 500 Men Making a Difference recruited men from the Anchor rehab program to assist in the cleanup of the garden area of the Eubie Blake...
Forty-five years ago Hattie Carthan, Bedford Stuyvesant resident and among the nation’s first African American community-based ecology activist, founded Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant.,...
By Selma M. Jackson My mother and my grandmother both lived to be 94 years old. The year before my mother died I asked myself how...
Adams, Aviles-Ramos Celebrate Test Score Data Showing Increased Proficiency New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Public...
It’s been 49 years since a New York City police officer shot and killed 15-year-old Randolph Evans returning from the...
Fern GillespieNoel Pointer burst on the music scene in the 1970s as a young brilliantly talented jazz violinist. The Brooklyn-born...
By Yvette MooreHands-on learning and career exploration is the pedagogic theme at Bed-Stuy’s P.S. 5, the Dr. Ronald E. McNair...
Ronald E McNair Public School 5 principal Lena Gates and students invited U.S. House Leader Hakeem Jeffries to join them...
By Eulene InnissA Swahili proverb states that “education has no end” and this was best exemplified the 47th Annual Scholarship...
By Mary Alice MillerWhen ICE commenced its June sweep of undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, protesters hit the streets. Trump...
By Mary Alice MillerRemember those pre-Apprentice days when tabloid gossip columnist Liz Smith dished the dirt on Trump, helping to...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbatts“Haitians are eating the pets, cats, and dogs,” he claimed while campaigning for a return to...
Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, NYC Council Brooklyn Delegation, Advocates, and Homeowners Rally to Demand Major Investment Into Fight Against...
by Binta VannLike many Bedford-Stuyvesant natives whose roots run deep in this community, I am the product of District 16...
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that New York and a coalition of 11...