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Voting Rights

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...
Events

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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Black History

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...
Editorial

Response to a Reader

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

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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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...
Events

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...
Black History

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...