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Community volunteers stand outside of the temporary Free People's Medical Clinic, curated for the exhibit Funk, God, Jazz and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn In her book, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimin

Roxanne Shante performs at "Pass the Mic: Ladies First, A Night of Women Emcees" Source Magazine celebrated its 25th anniversary this past weekend in Fort Greene with the "Source360" Festival.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer is auditing Citi Bike, the popular bikes that have been on a pathway to bankruptcy and plagued with operational problems since their May 2013 debut, reports the Daily News .

1. Alternate side parking regulations will be suspended twice this week-- Thursday, September 25 and Friday, September 26, for the Rosh Hashanah holiday. 2. Weather: Highs in the low 70s all week.

Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge will be closed to Manhattan-bound traffic on Saturday from 12:01 am to 7 am and on Sunday from 12:01 am to 9 am . Motorists should consider the Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, or Hugh L.

Police are looking for three men involved in a shooting Thursday night on Fulton Street.

The state of youth and young adult employment in New York is deplorable and even worse in Brooklyn. The unemployment rate for residents between the ages of 16 and 24 is 20% in New York and over 25% in Brooklyn.

A new bill sponsored by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) passed on Monday that will help small businesses and startups with patent and trademark matters. The bipartisan bill, H.R.

The state Labor Department said on Thursday New York City's unemployment rate fell faster in August than in any month on record, to 7.3 percent from 7.8 percent in July—the lowest it's been since 2009, reported The New York Times .

Chrisette Michele Did you know that Grammy Award-winning R&B soul singer/songwriter Chrisette Michele has deep roots in Bedford-Stuyvesant? Well, she's not actually from Bed-Stuy, but most of her extended family is.