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Protesting With Art: How Neighbors Are Getting Their Kids Involved

KENSINGTON – Thousands of people have been marching and engaging in peaceful protests for the past week, however, not everyone who supports the message can join the marches – there is a pandemic in the city. Our neighbors have been finding other ways to show support and talk to and encourage their

Announcements

“My Brooklyn” Screening and Panel Discussion Comes to Cypress Hills

CYPRESS HILLS – As the effects on gentrification creep across Brooklyn, expanding ever further from the East River, recent history can show those in the outer edges of the outer boroughs what has worked and what hasn’t in the fight against rising rents, development and displacement. As part of the

News

Russian Trolls Tricked Americans in Brooklyn In An Effort To Sow Racial Division

Russian trolls tricked Americans into helping them sow divisions along racial lines leading up to the 2016 election and into 2017—even right here in Brooklyn. A phony website called “Black Fist” paid Bed-Stuy based activist Omowale Adewale to hold self-defense classes geared towards African-Americans, Buzzfeed News reports [https://www.

community

TONIGHT: #Resistance Invigorates Church Avenue

Kettle & Thread, 1219 Church Avenue. (Photo by Nathan Thompson)More events inspired by the call to political activism are popping up along Church Avenue. Kettle & Thread is hosting #resist nights every Tuesday from 6pm to 9pm [http://www.kettleandthreadbrooklyn.com], and owner Beth Barraclough is keeping the doors open for

Central Brooklyn

Make Volunteering A New York Value

(Photo via Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)For the past two weeks, Brooklyn has been peppered with Trump resistance events, from parent-led immigrant support rallies [/belong-parents-stage-immigrant-support-rallies-outside-ditmas-park-schools/] to bodega strikes [/thousands-yemeni-americans-supporters-rally-trumps-muslim-ban/] to hand-delivering power bars to Senators [/thousands-brooklyn-send-senator-schumer-message-resist-trump/]. For those of you seeking to keep the momentum alive or make your voice h

Feature

An Activist Without Question: On Katia Kelly And Her Blog ‘Pardon Me For Asking’

Katia Kelly’s blog Pardon Me For Asking has been documenting Carroll Gardens and Gowanus for over a decade. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop)First, bookmark the blog Pardon Me For Asking [http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/]. There’s something rather meta-journalistic about Katia Kelly’s role as the

Bensonhurst

In Wake Of Anti-LGBTQ & Islamophobic Attacks, Bay Ridge Panel Embraces Diversity

(Photo via francis_ellen [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGoppKSnTZ9/?hl=en])In the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando [/stand-orlando-tonight-grand-army-plaza-unity-vigil/#.V5o1XZMrLe0], the killings in Minnesota, Baton Rouge and Dallas, and the string of attacks [/cops-investigating-hate/#.V5o1JJMrLe0] against Muslims during Ramadan, a group of Bay Ridgites are coming