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Feb 5: Black History Maker, Dr. Aprille Ericsson

A leader in science and aeronautical engineering
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BP Adams and Restoration Announce New, Free Matching Program to Help Residents Build a Financial Savings

BP Adams and Restoration Announce New, Free Matching Program to Help Residents Build a Financial Savings

The #BrooklynSaves Campaign aims to help 1,000 Brooklynnites build emergency savings and begin to close the Racial Wealth Gap
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Feb 4: Black History Maker, Shirley Chisholm

Feb 4: Black History Maker, Shirley Chisholm

Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress in 1968, and the first woman and African American to run for president.
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Restoration Kicks off Free Tax Prep Assistance in Bed-Stuy

Restoration Kicks off Free Tax Prep Assistance in Bed-Stuy

Last year, Restoration processed 3,400 returns, equaling $5,580,768 in refunds and $1,983,996 in Earned Income Tax Credit refunds.
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Feb 3: Black History Maker, Hattie Carthan

Feb 3: Black History Maker, Hattie Carthan

A community activist and environmentalist who was instrumental in improving the quality of life of Bedford-Stuyvesant
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Unaffordable NYC: What Are the City's Elected Officials Doing About It?

Unaffordable NYC: What Are the City's Elected Officials Doing About It?

The final story in our series on New York's affordability crisis
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Grenadian-born Brooklyn Filmmaker Explores Queer Caribbean Identity in New Film ‘Second Eulogy: Mind the Gap’

Scores turned out to see the screening at the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays
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Feb 2: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Basquiat’s signature painting style earned him cataclysmic stardom by the time he was 20.
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Feb 1: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Aaliyah

Feb 1: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Aaliyah

"Most exalted one"
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Common, Kehinde, Bri Blvck and Others at Bklyn Museum's First Saturday

Common, Kehinde, Bri Blvck and Others at Bklyn Museum's First Saturday

Futura Noir: A bevy of exciting Black History Month programming kicks off at Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday
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