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Woodhull Hospital Opens Brooklyn’s First Health Center for LGBTQ Patients

Woodhull Hospital Opens Brooklyn’s First Health Center for LGBTQ Patients

The new Pride Health Center offers culturally competent health services including primary care, behavioral health, dental services, hormone therapy, HIV testing and prophylaxis provided by specially trained medical staff First Lady Chirlane McCrae On
City Passes Cumbo's Bill to Create Resource Guide in Support of Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses

City Passes Cumbo's Bill to Create Resource Guide in Support of Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses

The guide aims to ensure that subcontractors like M/WBEs will gain greater knowledge of their rights and to provide them with information about available city services and contract opportunities On Tuesday, City Council passed a bill that requires th

2nd Annual Kwanzaa Crawl Returns to Take Over Central Brooklyn Bars

Drink and be merry during the second annual Kwanzaa Crawl in support of black-owned bars in Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene Photo credit: Soul Society 101 Kwanzaa Crawl, a Kwanzaa-celebrating bar crawl, returns

I Heart Sculptures-Intertwined Exhibition Is Def Worth A Visit

Artists Sui Park/Alexandra Limpert...and Chashama space I'm a longtime fan of sculpture work, from the process of creating the work to the experience of seeing the work on exhibit.

Bklyn Designs to Move to Brooklyn Museum, Connecting the History and Future of Design

Bklyn Designs, launched in 2003, was one of the first design fairs to shine a spotlight on Brooklyn's creative economy and has since attracted thousands of visitors each year Photo credit: Design Milk Bklyn Designs, the borough's vibrant design show
Santaland Spreads Holiday Cheer in Brownsville

Santaland Spreads Holiday Cheer in Brownsville

'Santaland,' Healthfirst's holiday celebration, brought Christmas Cheer to 2,500 little and not-so-little guests alike On Saturday, Healthfirst transformed the Seth Low Community Center in Brownsville into a dreamy winter world.
A Prayer For 2018

A Prayer For 2018

We are all in this together, no matter how we wish to be "other than." "The Art of Seeing," by Michael Milton I am, by most accounts, an affable guy. I'm also a big guy: Six feet four inches, weighing in at about two hundred and twenty pounds.

Brownsville Mother-Daughter Team Creates Children's Book Series to Bring Culture into the Classroom

Cathie Wright-Lewis and daughter Cheyenne Lewis created 'Mama Relly,' a children's book that teaches history, drawing stories from their own family's slave narratives Mother-daughter duo: Author Cathie Wright-Lewis (left) with illustrator Cheyenne Le

Dr. Brenda Greene Honored for 30 Years of Leadership at Medgar Evers College

As executive director of the Center for Black Literature, Dr. Greene has consistently pursued her passion for expanding and enriching the public's knowledge and appreciation for the value of Black and African diaspora literature Dr. Brenda M.

'Brooklyn to Benin' Explores Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Heritage and Identity in Mixed-Media Series

'Brooklyn to Benin' features two documentary shorts about the personal journey of two Haitian-American women exploring the historical, cultural and spiritual connections between the African diaspora and Benin Photo: 'African Odyssey: Ancestral Memori