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Category: Race Matters

Posted inRace Matters

Meet the Young Brooklyn Activists Reimagining Black Futures

by Kimberlean Donis February 1, 2021

During last summer’s racial justice protests that saw hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets nationwide, one group captured the energy and demands of Gen-Z like no other: Freedom March NYC.  Co-founded by Brooklyn residents Chelsea Miller, 24, and Nialah Edari, 25, the group has quickly become one of the largest youth-led civil […]

Posted inSmall Business

Nets Owner BSE Global Launches Program to Recruit Minority-Owned Businesses in Brooklyn

by Jessy Edwards January 28, 2021
Posted inLifestyle & Culture

Video: How the Community Reclaimed the Streets With Brooklyn BLM Mural

by Brooklyn Reader January 21, 2021
Posted inArts & Entertainment

Billie Holiday Theater Instrumental in Providing Close to 100 Black Theaters Grant Support

by Brooklyn Reader January 20, 2021
Posted inFeatured News

A Brooklyn Foodie Creates PluckerShop App to Connect Local Restaurants and Customers

by Nigel Roberts December 24, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Brownsville ‘Hero of New York’ Puts on Virtual Juneteenth Kwanzaa Festival

by Jessy Edwards December 24, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Brooklyn’s Bridge Street Development Corporation Chosen for Microsoft Grant

by Brooklyn Reader December 21, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Negro Leagues Reclassified As Major Leagues by MLB as Part of Centennial Celebration

by Brooklyn Reader December 17, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Founder of Bed-Stuy School Empowering Kids Wins Anti-Racism Grant From Brooklyn Nets Owners

by Jessy Edwards December 17, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Brooklyn Navy Yard To Hold Business Incubator for Minority and Women Entrepreneurs

by Brooklyn Reader December 3, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Meet the Brooklyn Native Using Film for Social Awareness in His Latest Picture ‘Catharsis’

by Kimberlean Donis November 23, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

15 Brooklyn Restaurants to Support This Black Restaurant Week and Beyond (And There Are So Many More!)

by Brooklyn Reader November 20, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Meet Some of the Brooklyn Activists Fighting for Justice in the Borough and Beyond

by Kevin Limiti November 13, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Org for Black Filmmakers ‘Levels Up’ With Membership Program

by Jessy Edwards November 13, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Here’s What Happens at the Nightly Anti-Racist Gathering in McCarren Park

by Miranda Levingston November 2, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Brooklyn Protesters Trapped, Beaten, Humiliated by NYPD Officers: Lawsuit

by Jessy Edwards October 27, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Kicks Off The National Black Writers Conference

by Brooklyn Reader October 14, 2020
Posted inRace Matters

The Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is on a Mission to Erase Anti-Blackness

by Yannise Jean October 8, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Photos: Crown Heights Subway Stations Renamed in Honor of Civil Rights Hero Medgar Wiley Evers

by Anna Bradley-Smith October 2, 2020
Posted inFeatured News

Crowds Gather at Maria Hernandez Park to Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor

by Anna Bradley-Smith September 25, 2020

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