Local Voices

Straight Out of COVID: How Brooklyn Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses Pivoted During a Global Pandemic.

By Kenya Handy-Hilliard COVID-19 has battered our City. As of February 28, 2021, New York City recorded total cases of COVID-19 and 28,500 deaths.

By: Lindy Hale New York City native Shaun Parker is no stranger to change. While working as a fitness instructor in Memphis, Tennessee, Parker stumbled upon the social media page of a friend who was transitioning from graffiti art to tattooing.

COVID-19 swept through Brooklyn's business community like a powerful tornado last year — demolishing multitudes of small businesses that entrepreneurs worked hard for years to build.

By: Tahirah Moore When COVID-19 first began spreading in the U.S., it brought serious risks for our nation and families everywhere. It was an unfamiliar threat, and still is today.

There was time when I would have given my left testicle to be heterosexual. And when I did lose my left testicle 30 years later, it was because of cancer

Loyalty is a workhorse word. The other word choices of the holiday season are sweet, blurry, watercolor ideas. But Loyalty requires effort.

By Denny Jacob Depending on where you live, local and hyperlocal news isn't being covered. While Brooklyn-centric outlets report on the entire borough as much as possible, gaps in coverage remain for neighborhoods like Ocean Hill-Brownsville.

Fifteen years ago, David Negron was left paralyzed from the waist down by a drive-by shooting intended for someone else.

By: Alexis Stewart For so many Black people, especially Black women, embracing natural hair is tied to a sacred expression of identity.