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New York Prison Photo: Getty Images By JoAnne Page, President and CEO of the Fortune Society In my 26 years as president and CEO of the Fortune Society, I have witnessed incarceration rates swell as crime rates plummeted.

It's baaaack . For those of you Brooklynites who live and die by "the flea," the Big Cahuna of all Kings County outdoor markets-- Brooklyn Flea-- opens for the summer season in Fort Greene this Saturday, April 2.

Khadija Tudor, Founder of the Khadija Hands Project Anxiety. Stress. Depression. Now more than ever it seems the stress of daily life weighs so heavily upon our shoulders.

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Evelyn Corona Ramirez, 14, first-place winner of the 2016 Recipe Rescue cooking competition Two ninth-grade students--Evelyn Corona Ramirez, 14, and Cheyenne Washington, 15-- who are members of NYU Lutheran Family Health Centers Project Reach Youth (

Author Zetta Elliott Photo: Valerie Caesar "I was a storyteller before I was a writer," said Brooklyn resident Zetta Elliott , 43.

Brooklyn Community Board 8, the members of Community Education Council for New York City School District 13, parent advocates and civic organizations, and elected officials, have joined together to create a vision for a new public middle school to be

Commanding Officer Scott Henderson, 88th Precinct, Brooklyn Almost exactly two years after Deputy Inspector Scott Henderson was appointed Commanding Officer of Bed-Stuy's 81st precinct (March 2014), the precinct is announcing that Henderson will be p

Amalgamated Bank at 1212 Fulton Street Amalgamated Bank has volunteered five of its bank branches-- one in Bed-Stuy-- for residents to vote on city-funded projects, known as participatory budgeting.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad On Sunday, April 3, 2016, 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College will present a conversation with Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Dr.