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New Anti-Smoking Media Campaign Encourages New Yorkers to Keep on 'Quitting'

The new anti-smoking campaign stresses: Almost everyone who successfully quits smoking requires multiple attempts - keep on trying, regardless how many times you tried.

This UrbanGlass Beadmaking Program Challenges and Changes Lives

For over twenty years UrbanGlass's beadmaking scholarship program has provided creative and entrepreneurial skills to artsy, low-income women in New York.

‘On Air Fest’ Presents Biggest and Freshest Voices of Podcast and Audio Industry at Inaugural Festival

The only event of its kind, On Air Fest takes inspiration from creative conferences, performance art and music festivals - providing a magical space to advance the culture of audio.
Flatbush Councilmember Jumaane Williams Announces Run for NY Lt. Governor

Flatbush Councilmember Jumaane Williams Announces Run for NY Lt. Governor

Jumaane Williams readies himself to be a critical, progressive voice in Albany as he challenges the current NY administration from the left.

Comptroller's New Pilot Program Lets Tenants Boost Credit Scores Through Rent Payments

The program allows tenants to add their rent payments to their credit histories; residents of neighborhoods like Brownsville and East New York with particularly low credit scores could benefit greatly from the new initiative In Brooklyn, residents of

Just Leadership USA: Fighting the Criminal Justice System from the Inside Out

Just Leadership USA, an organization dedicated to cutting the country's prison population in half, is co-sponsoring a panel at Brooklyn Law School to discuss what closing Rikers Island would mean for Brooklyn Actor & activist, Gbenga Akinnagbe, s

Common to Kick Off BRIC's 40Th Celebrate Brooklyn! Season

Since it began in 1979 as a catalyst for a burgeoning Brooklyn performing arts scene, the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival has become one of the city's foremost summer cultural attractions Photo credit: indiewire.

Councilman Williams Calls for 'Common Sense Measures' in Wake of Florida School Shooting

Williams stressed the responsibility of elected officials to curb both the supply and the demands for guns, and to counteract the efforts of the Trump administration and the NRA that enable the "demonic obsession with guns.

Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts Presents Jazz Master Kenny Barron

At the age of 74, after a more than six decades-spanning career, master pianist Kenny Barron continues to recreate himself as an eternal student of jazz Photo credit: kennybarron.

Poet Sonia Sanchez to Be Honored for Her Activism at Bklyn Museum

'Poetic Justice: Women, Power, Politics and the Black Arts Movement,' is an evening of social justice—infused poetry and spoken word performances, followed by a conversation with the award-winning author Photo credit: Kalamu.