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Gentrification: Who is the Villain?

Gentrification: Who is the Villain?

Photo: BRIC on Facebook Who is the villain? The question kept coming up at Brooklyn for Sale: The Price of Gentrification, a town hall meeting hosted at Bric by Brooklyn Independent Media, January 28.
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This Bushwick Bookstore Fights Gentrification with Literature

This Bushwick Bookstore Fights Gentrification with Literature

Mil Mundos brings literature celebrating Black and Latinx culture to a rapidly gentrifying area that has been devoid of a bookstore for decades
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Gentrification in Brooklyn: A Critical Dialogue

Gentrification in Brooklyn: A Critical Dialogue

On Wednesday, November 19, at 7:00pm, the Billie Holiday Theatre Film Series will show a screening of My Brooklyn, followed by a critical dialogue on the issue of gentrification.
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Study: Brownsville Could Be Next to Face Gentrification

Study: Brownsville Could Be Next to Face Gentrification

A new map shows that parts of Brownsville have already begun gentrifying, while other sections may be up next for the economic shift.
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Mayor Eric Adams, you can’t equate gentrification with slavery

Mayor Eric Adams, you can’t equate gentrification with slavery

New York City Mayor Eric Adams equated gentrification with slavery during a speech commemorating the Juneteenth holiday. Mayor Eric Adams needs to learn that the nonsense he could spout to select audiences as Brooklyn beep won’t fly in higher office.
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Homeless in Brooklyn: Gentrification Closing in

In his address to the City on February 28, Mayor Bill de Blasio outlined how the sheer intensity of the homelessness problem in New York City is further exacerbated by a shift in demographics of homeless families— now seventy percent of the she
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Covid Spread in New York and Gentrification

Covid Spread in New York and Gentrification

With over 15,000 fatalities, New York City, the financial centre of the United States of America, has emerged as the global epicentre of the war against Covid-19 with all five boroughs impacted.
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Blogger's Corner: Gentrification 'Catching Fire' in Brooklyn

Scene from "Catching Fire," the second film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy Just last week I happened to come across a very popular feed of a Brooklynite in my network who shared a link of Spike Lee's recent response to the "Mutha
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Photos and Funky Meditations on an Opera About Gentrification

Although Brer Rabbit The Opera: A Funky Meditation On Gentrification is a remix of Brer Rabbit, the African-American (via Africa) folk story, Greg Tate, Aisha Cousins, the Burnt Sugar Arkestra and cast have turned it into something bigger, longer and
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Ted Hearne On Exploring Gentrification Through The Music Of 'Place'

Ted Hearne On Exploring Gentrification Through The Music Of 'Place'

Composer Ted Hearne is known for tackling big social themes through his music. His modern classical works have put a spotlight on issues of race and justice, inequality, natural disasters and other social issues.
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