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Center for Disease Control Coronavirus Disease Situation Summary

This is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information as it becomes available, in addition to updated guidance. Background CDC is responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei...
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Kobe Bryant: A Remembrance

Biographer Shares Thoughts on Kobe Bryant & Other Iconic Athletes We phoned Brooklyn’s Boys & Girls High School alum Blaine Robinson for assistance in finding an expert on Kobe. In less than two hours, we were on the phone with Blaine’s friend and Bryant’s...

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A Coalition Rallies to Save Abolitionist’s Home

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Fight on the Homefront Grows: Tish Town Hall on Real Estate Fraud, Deed Theft Packed

    New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries hosted a town...
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African Burial Ground Dedicated in East New York

Celebration and Reinternment of our Ancestors   By Amadi Ajamu        NYC Council member Inez Barron and...
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Stolen Land, Stolen Labor: The Case for Reparations

By David Mark Greaves     The discussion of reparations comes at another turning point in American...
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Fathers/ Fathering: Rediscovering Lost Values

Founding Fathers: This year's annual May "Rediscovering Lost Values" tour of South-based shrines to...
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Rear View Unguarded: Glen Beck’s Journey

  BAVC’s 2019 “Rediscovering Lost Values” Tour through The South Offered a Protector Insights into...
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Segregated Schools, No Test Required

By Basir Mchawi Back in March, parents, students and educational advocates shuddered as the dismal...
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An e-conversation launches a summer series, “The National Ecology Report.”

...Of Roots & Rivers Bernice Elizabeth Green and Lynne Buchanan This spring, photographer/essayist Lynne Buchanan and...
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Weeksville Heritage Center in DangerCommunity Comes to Help

  The Weeksville Heritage Center was founded in 1838 to preserve the history of Americans...
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THE NEW ACTIVISTS: Brooklyn’s Inspired Urban Ecology Leaders are Growing Gardens, Trees, Earth Centers and More

Urban Ecology Hattie Carthan passed April 23, 1984. This week marks the anniversary of her...
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Brooklyn Loses an Education & Cultural Warrior

Stan’s Going Home Services:   Sunday April 14, 2019: Viewing 4-7pm Woodard Funeral Home, 1 Troy Avenue(off...
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Implications of Sea Level Rise

Climate Change Flood, drought, fire, famine and pestilence. These are some of the consequences of...
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Bob Law Stood Tall on the Frontlines and Behind the Scenes, His “Clarion Call” Made News

By Nayaba ArindeThe Tall One has joined The Ancestors. Tributes have come in thick...
Events

Forum: Immigrants are the Bargaining Chip Keeping the Government Shut Down

By Mary Alice MillerThe Brooklyn Center for Quality Life recently hosted a national online...
Education

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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Binta Vann, Family and Friends on The Reasons HBCUs Work for Us

“Mental health, like physical and spiritual health, demands balance and intentional self-care. This new...