By Lyndon TaylorOn Saturday, June 22nd, the Annual One Brooklyn Health Fair transformed the community into a hub of health and wellness, as residents flocked in...
by Fern GillespieIt’s ironic that February is both Heart Month and Black History Month –especially with Black Americans continuing to make medical history as the major...
By Mary Alice MillerResearch Day is an exciting time at Brookdale Hospital. For nine years Brookdale has hosted Annual Research Day, an opportunity for residents, students,...
By Mary Alice MillerLaRay Brown has been putting out fires since Day One when she joined One Brooklyn Health as its President and CEO in 2017....
Dear Governor Hochul,We are writing this letter in our capacity as women leaders and organizers, representing the Central and East Brooklyn communities, the constituency who made...
By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was invited by Trinity College to view...
Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first woman Vice President will go down in the history books as the first...
NYPL will honor one of its most legendary patrons with exhibitions at libraries he frequented, along with programming and book...
By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former chattel slaves were promised 40 acres...
By Col. (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings,U.S. ArmySpecial to the AFRO“All last night, guns shook on the ground on which I...
Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davisat the funeral of Malcolm XFaith Temple Church of GodFebruary 27, 1965“Here – at this final...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change, and maybe Brooklyn can lead the way. The population in NYC who...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change. “Now is the time” Rev. Jesse Jackson famously said to mobilize the...