Local Voices

" Going natural " or ceasing to relax my hair was probably the biggest and most difficult decision I had to make as an eighteen-year-old. It was tough because simply put, I did care what my friends and family had to say about my new look.

There are parts of the past that we love to dwell on and sometimes wallow in. The present is where life exists; it's what is happening now and is alive. The future is what we pray, hope and desire to live into and get to.

A letter from Cecilia Clarke, president and CEO of Brooklyn Community Foundation Brooklyn Community Foundation President & CEO Cecilia Clarke, September 2013 Dear Friends: It has been a little over a year since I joined Brooklyn Community Foundat

The following is the 4th in a series on "Landlords, Eviction and Gentrification:" Making a Killing in Clinton Hill By Guest blogger Karen Malpede Walter Rappelyea Davies -- 280 Washington's second owner; the house was originally built by a Pfizer, of

By Guest Blogger Linda Cousins-Newton, "The Brooklyn Storyteller" A storyteller, writer, artist tends to see a story, beauty, history just about everywhere.

By Guest Blogger Linda Cousins-Newton, "The Brooklyn Storyteller" As a long-time Brooklyn-based ancestral storyteller and writer, I enjoy, relish and grow from the adventures and lessons of life.

Alex Tavis as the fossil fuel industry mogul Frank, being fired upon by George Bartenieff as Uncle, an environmentalist, and Kathleen Purcell as Annie: "The wind turbine works!" in "Extreme Whether" Photo: Beatriz Schiller By Guest Blogger, Karen Mal

Me in the kitchen with my dogs as puppies Photo: Rod Morrison By guest blogger Karen Malpede After nearly 24 years as good tenants, sometimes even friends, our landlady has chosen to take us to housing court in order to evict us from the Clinton Hill

Photo: "Zonnestralen" by Onderwijsgek — Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons My workshop, Calling in the One Unapologetically, officially started last week on September 18th 2014.

Two pieces this week... Both are about animals, and the message is that animals are an important part of who we are. They reflect the parts of ourselves that don't use language as we know it... That is, words.