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Kids Become Science Superheroes During Spring Break at 'Camp Wakanda!'

Wish you could send your child to Wakanda for spring break? Crown Heights-based Camp Wakanda, with its STEAM-focused fun, may be the next best option. Children showing of science experiments.
Dinner is Served! Fort Greene's Hudson Jane Offers New Extended Hours

Dinner is Served! Fort Greene's Hudson Jane Offers New Extended Hours

With the arrival of the wine and beer license, the Fort Greene's Hudson Jane is set for dinner! Photo credit: Michael Tulipan for Hudson Jane Owned by partners Jen LaPorta and Chef Megan Johnson, Hudson Jane has been a neighborhood favorite since ope

Care Packages Made in East Flatbush for the Homeless in the Streets of NYC

Keshia Adams is all about care packages: To provide schools supplies and toys for kids, and toiletries, clothes and uplifting messages for NYC's homeless population Keshia Adams, founder of Lifting You for Tomorrow's Success at Palooza Kitchen, assem

WeWork Launches Coding Program 'Access Labs' for Lower-Income New Yorkers

WeWork, in collaboration with the Flatiron School, designed a robust 15-week program to give students the skills needed to go from code newbies to in-demand software engineers that requires no upfront tuition. Photo credit: Brooklynarchive.

The Legacy of Frederick Douglass - A Conversation with His Great-Great-Grandson Lloyd Weaver

Lloyd Weaver, the paternal great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass, shared his thoughts on the legacy of the 19th-century abolitionist in a personal interview.

New Fort Greene Co-Working Space Fosters Community and Local Economy

Fort Greene Commins founder Sam Utne promotes neighborhood, community and productivity with his new co-working model.

This UrbanGlass Beadmaking Program Challenges and Changes Lives

For over twenty years UrbanGlass's beadmaking scholarship program has provided creative and entrepreneurial skills to artsy, low-income women in New York.

Comptroller's New Pilot Program Lets Tenants Boost Credit Scores Through Rent Payments

The program allows tenants to add their rent payments to their credit histories; residents of neighborhoods like Brownsville and East New York with particularly low credit scores could benefit greatly from the new initiative In Brooklyn, residents of

Councilman Williams Calls for 'Common Sense Measures' in Wake of Florida School Shooting

Williams stressed the responsibility of elected officials to curb both the supply and the demands for guns, and to counteract the efforts of the Trump administration and the NRA that enable the "demonic obsession with guns.

Poet Sonia Sanchez to Be Honored for Her Activism at Bklyn Museum

'Poetic Justice: Women, Power, Politics and the Black Arts Movement,' is an evening of social justice—infused poetry and spoken word performances, followed by a conversation with the award-winning author Photo credit: Kalamu.