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Electeds Express Outrage: Minorities Represent 65 Percent of NYC Tax-Paying Population, Yet Receive Only 1 Percent of City's Business Contracts!

NYC Comptroller Scott M.

Dec 14, 2015 4:24 PM Read more >

Should Medgar Evers Prep Move into Boys and Girls High School? Parents Say, 'I Don't Think so!'

Earlier this year, when Boys and Girls High School's interim principle Michael Wiltshire proposed merging the flailing Boys and Girls High School in Bed-Stuy with the high-achieving Medgar Evers College Preparatory School in Crown Heights, he was met

Dec 13, 2015 11:48 AM Read more >

Central Brooklyn, Get Ready for the First-Ever 24-Hour Hackathon and Youth Tech Challenge!

Central Brooklyn, I have one question: Are you ready to take the reins as the country's next, leading technology center ? Well, there is a group of Brooklyn teens who apparently say "yes!" On Saturday, December 12, State Senator Jesse Hamilton and Bl

Dec 11, 2015 3:53 PM Read more >

Free Legal Clinic to Address Residential Displacement, Tenant Harassment in Brownsville, E. New York and Cypress Hills

Earlier this year, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L.

Dec 11, 2015 3:17 PM Read more >

Report Shows, 'We are in the Worst Rental Crisis this Country Has Ever Known'

Are you a renter who struggles each month to make your rent? Well, if so, you're far from alone. According to Harvard's State of the Nation's Housing 2015 report , one in three Americans struggle getting their rental checks in on time.

Dec 11, 2015 1:33 PM Read more >

Daryl Huggins: Why I Choose Biking as my Primary form of Transportation

By Richard Estime, a senior at Medgar Evers College and intern at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. Meet 45-year-old Daryl Huggins.

Dec 10, 2015 11:00 AM Read more >

DIVAS for Social Justice Re-launches Cross Generational Entrepreneurial Program

By Clarisa James DIVAS for Social Justice is seeking cross-generational entrepreneurs for its remixed program, DIBS (Digital Inter-Generational Bridges to Success).

Dec 10, 2015 10:00 AM Read more >

Brooklyn Community Pride Center Names Floyd Rumohr as New Executive Director

Floyd Rumohr will serve as the new executive director of Brooklyn Community Pride Center Brooklyn Community Pride Center announced on Wednesday that Floyd Rumohr will serve as its new executive director effective January 4, 2016.

Dec 10, 2015 9:15 AM Read more >

This Saturday: Get Ready to 'Walk the Windows' for the Holidays on Atlantic Ave

Have you visited the downtown area of Atlantic Avenue lately? If so, then you know that in the last five years it has exploded with number of enormous changes-- from the renovated Brooklyn Bridge Park, to the addition of Trader Joe's; and let's not f

Dec 9, 2015 11:43 AM Read more >

Managing Type 1 Diabetes (Juvenile Diabetes)

By Renée D. Roberts, MPH, Caribbean Women's Health Association, Inc.

Dec 9, 2015 11:15 AM Read more >