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    Students Hone Skills for Democracy in ‘Civic for All’ Initiative in Brooklyn Schools

    By Yvette MooreIn Crown Heights middle school students explore the messages in lyrics of...

    Gregory Pinn, M.S.: “Resilience, Creativity, Power Shape Our Present and Our Future”

    Remarks before the Fort Greene Council, Inc. Black History Awards EventFriday, February 28, 2025...
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    Dr. Raymond Codrington: The 1866 Freedman’s Torchlight Newspaper was a Beacon for Brooklyn’s Weeksville Community

    By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was...

    Response to a Reader

    Reprint from November 4, 2010To the Editor:I love the Bedford-Stuyvesant community. My family and...

    Brooklyn History Matters – Weeksville & Magnolia

    Borough's Early Progenitors of Village Matters Saturday, January 28 marks the 40th Anniversary of an...

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    The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland A Bound Woman...

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    Fern GillespieLurita (LB) Brown, owner of Clinton Hill Simply Art & Framing Gallery, is...