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Clean Slate: NYC Residents Can Vacate Warrants for Minor Offenses

It's back: a chance to clean your slate! On Saturday, November 21, from 9:00am — 3:00pm at Soul Saving Station Church in Manhattan, located at 302 W. 124th St.

Nov 18, 2015 8:42 AM Read more >

Comptroller Report: Unemployment Rate in Brooklyn Drops, from 7.5% to 5.5%

According to an analysis of the City's economic performance in the third quarter of 2015 released Friday by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, the City's unemployment rate is down to 5.4 percent, the lowest rate since 2008.

Nov 17, 2015 1:30 PM Read more >

5 Things You Should Know About Medical Marijuana in NYC

Gov. Cuomo Signing Compassionate Care Bill The cannabis legalization creep is moving across the country ( click here for a map ), in a pattern that is neither linear nor logical.

Nov 17, 2015 10:23 AM Read more >

Impressionism and the Caribbean Through the Eyes of Revolutionary Painter Francisco Oller

Francisco Oller (1833-1917). "Maestro Cordero's School," circa 1890.

Nov 17, 2015 9:53 AM Read more >

Graduation Day -- Incredible Years Parenting Class

Congratulations to all consumers of our parenting classes for babies and toddlers! On November 4th, 2015, Caribbean Women's Health Association, Inc.

Nov 17, 2015 8:36 AM Read more >

In Video 'It Gets Better,' FDNY and EMTs Share Their Personal 'Coming Out' Stories, to Support LGBT Youth

Dear lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, New York's firefighters and EMT workers want to let you know, "It gets better.

Nov 16, 2015 4:23 PM Read more >

VIDEO: 'Local Star' Rev. Brawley and Partner Win 6th Annual Stars of New York Dance Competition

They twirled, they tapped; they waltzed, they whirled! On Friday, November 13, at the Kumble Theater, eight of the community's most beloved leaders put on their dancing shoes, their brightest smiles and their sharpest moves to convince five judges th

Nov 16, 2015 1:34 PM Read more >

Urban Graduate Shane Romero Has Officially Joined 'The Gentleman's Movement'

Poet, speaker and activist Shane Romero Shane Romero grew up on Bedford and Dekalb avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, long before the arrival of the high-rise luxury tower around the corner and years before the opening of the organic food market across t

Nov 13, 2015 4:39 PM Read more >

Samara Gaev-- 'Truthworker' Inside the School-to-Prison Pipeline

James Forza performing in IN|PRISM: Boxed In & Blacked Out in America at JACK, May 2015. Photo courtesy of Truthworker Theatre Company.

Nov 13, 2015 1:49 PM Read more >

Don't Be Scurrred- Friday The 13th Weekend Action

Friday the 13th is a peculiar date. It's feared by many people and apparently, has been considered an unlucky day for quite some time.

Nov 13, 2015 9:53 AM Read more >