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BED STUY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ HONORS COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDER DURING 2026 STEMMY AWARDS

In the music industry, there are the Grammys. The movie industry has the Oscars, and television boasts the Emmys. But on Saturday, May 16, all eyes were on PS 5 in Brooklyn’s beloved Bedford-Stuyvesant community. That is where the students, teachers, faculty, staff, and...
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Freedom School Kick-Off at Medgar Evers College 

By - Nehemi’EL Ibrihim-Simms On Saturday April 18th, 2026, at Medgar Evers College Campus the long-awaited Saturday Freedom School began. The program is being initiated as a partnership between powerful community stakeholders including Inspiring Minds NYC, the NAACP, and the Medgar Evers Center for Law...

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At Long Last, “Freedom” Comes to Brooklyn

NAACP New York State Conference to Launch NY Freedom School -- a Culturally Affirming...
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Study Highlights Long-term Values of Attending an HBCU

Fern GillespieSince the Reconstruction Era, Black colleges and universities have nurtured generations of Black...
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AACEO Welcomes New NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels

By Mary Alice MillerThe African American Clergy and Elected Officials organization began the new...
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NYC Black Students Excelling On NYS Reading Tests

Adams, Aviles-Ramos Celebrate Test Score Data Showing Increased Proficiency New York City Mayor Eric Adams...
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9 Students Awarded 46th Annual Randolph Evans Memorial Scholarship

It’s been 49 years since a New York City police officer shot and killed...
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Noel Pointer’s Music Mentoring Legacy Lives

Fern GillespieNoel Pointer burst on the music scene in the 1970s as a young...
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Students Learn the Sky is the Limit inP.S. 5 Hands-on Learning and Career Exploration Program

By Yvette MooreHands-on learning and career exploration is the pedagogic theme at Bed-Stuy’s P.S....
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Cong. Hakeem Jeffries Takes P.S. 5 Student-Led Master Classes in Brooklyn

Ronald E McNair Public School 5 principal Lena Gates and students invited U.S. House...
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The Association of Black Educators 47th Annual Scholarship & Awards Luncheon

By Eulene InnissA Swahili proverb states that “education has no end” and this was...
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Brownsville Youth Dive Into OffshoreWind Construction Training Program

By Mary Alice MillerOn a cool afternoon in early June a group of Juniors...
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Mayor Adams and Chancellor Aviles-Ramos Announce Hiring Over 3,700 new Teachers at Nearly 750 Schools as Part of Upcoming Mayoral Executive Budget

April 9, 2025Announcement Builds on Mayor Adams' Record of Investments in New York City...
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Girls With Knowledge – Promoting Empowerment and Self-sufficiency

Cooperative, Collective, Collaboration By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeA self-proclaimed “inter-personal individual,” Brooklyn native Marcelle Lashley-Kaboré has a...
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Health & Wellness

“In the Mix: Veggie Power” by Dr. Gerry Baker

(A Story of Community, Nutrition, and Inclusion for Children of All Ages)  - By Yvette Moore Lessons...
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One Brooklyn Health to Host Free Family Health Fair at Interfaith Campus 

BROOKLYN, NY — One Brooklyn Health (OBH) invites Brooklyn residents to attend the OBH Interfaith Campus Family Health...
Black History

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Occasion: Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was asked to give an address regarding the...
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Scholars Angela Y. Davis and Jelani Cobb Gift Wisdom and Inspire Intergenerational Reflections at BPL’s Kahn Humanities Event

In a milestone recognition of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United...