Local Voices

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.

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By: Alexis Stewart Your Queens, Inc., a Brooklyn-based African royalty character company, plans to use their voice to amplify protestors in Nigeria to bring an end to police brutality with the Special Anti-Robbery Squad's involvement (SARS).

By: Alexis Stewart The Bed-Stuy Film Festival (BSFF) will be extending its contemporary display of art and cinema, to November 23! After its original release running from October 23-25, GoodGirl PR is so excited to be announcing an encore of these br

"The Art of Seeing" by Michael Milton The stork is voiceless because, really, there is nothing to say ~Will Cuppy Six years back, I approached Clara Zawadi Morris--the editor of Brooklyn Reader--with an idea.