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Unite NY Rally on Juneteenth 2020. (Photo: Adrian Childress/Bklyner)When Brooklyn couple Aja Davis and Molly Ola Pinney read the imperative, “white people, do something!’ in a piece of online artwork around the time of last summer’s protests, they took it quite literally. In the roughly nine months
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Last June, right after the paint had dried on the giant new D.C. mural sporting the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the two blocks leading up to the White House, Bed-Stuy’s Monique Antoine watched from afar as the space sat idle, blocked off from traffic but otherwise completely
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Jamel Floyd protest. (Photo: Adrian Childress/Bklyner)BROWNSVILLE – To bring the conversation of race inside the classroom and to give a platform for the community to voice their feelings and be heard, students, mental health counselors, and the administration at Brooklyn Collegiate Preparatory High School created a social justice task
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A protestor and counter-protestor clashing. (Photo via Rathkopf Photos, with permission.)BAY RIDGE/DYKER HEIGHTS – On Sunday, dozens of people decided to march for Blue Lives Matter in Bay Ridge in support of the NYPD. Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who was leading Saturday’s protest, told the Staten Island Advance [https:
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Portrait of Mayo Orozco by artist Nadia Westcott. Courtesy of Joe Matunis.Two new murals in Williamsburg – one at the event space 74Wythe [https://www.74wythe.com/], the other right inside the South 4th Street entrance to Domino Park – pay tribute to the people holding New York together. Just inside
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This year June 19th – Juneteenth – is marking the 155th years since the last proclamation of the end of slavery, as America is enveloped in nationwide protests over the treatment of Black people in the country today, sparked by the recent murder of George Floyd. “I think that this year has
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Alhassan Umar (right) at a protest. (Photo via Mamadou Barry, [https://www.instagram.com/leboss.official/] Leboss Shoots Photography, [https://www.instagram.com/lebosshoots/] with permission)THE BRONX – When Alhassan Umar was almost two years old, he moved to the Bronx from Ghana. A few months later, 23-year-old Amadou Diallo
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Photo via David L. Bowles, @aquanasium [https://www.instagram.com/aquanasium/], with permission.PROSPECT HEIGHTS – Thousands of people in masks and white clothing rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum and then took part in a silent march for Black transgender lives. Earlier this week, two Black transgender women, Riah Milton from
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Photo via Gareth Bryant.BEDFORD STUYVESANT – Gareth Bryant has been on Earth for 38 years thus far. In these 38 years, he has experienced a lot. He’s dealt with racism and xenophobia. He lost himself and then found himself. He discovered faith. And he never let anything stop him.
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Brooklyn Protests, June 1. By Adrian Childress/BklynerAs we enter into our second week of protests, now with an 8:00 pm curfew, action has become more necessary than ever. In addition to contacting your representatives, donating to charitable organizations, and voicing your support for the Black Lives Matter movement
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerDOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — On Friday night packed with anger and emotion, over 1,000 people marched and protested against police brutality and the crackdown on MTA’s fare evasion. The large protest at One MetroTech Center was in response to the videos of black teenagers being punched in
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Crowd at “Not One More” Rally (Photo by Nathan Haselby)Hundreds gathered in the cold Monday night in front of the Barclays Center to honor six black trans women killed in the first two months of 2017. Organized by the Trans Women of Color Collective [http://www.twocc.us/], in
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Kids and their parents at Hootenanny Art House. (Photo Credit: Steve Curtis) Wife/husband partnership Kira Smith and Pete Sinjin [/punk-rock-roots-pete-seeger-whole-family-pete-sinjin-hootenanny-art-house-celebrate-new-album-southslope/] typically have a packed day of classes and teaching on Wednesday mornings at Hootenanny Art House [http://www.hootenannyarthouse.com/], their classroom and artspace at 428 15th Street (just
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(Photo by Carly Miller / Fort Greene Focus)The organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice [http://jfrej.org/] (JFREJ) held a peaceful rally and march on Thursday, July 28 [/blog/politics/tonight-jews-for-black-lives-action-vigil-to-call-for-police-reform/] , to protest police violence against people of color, and demand police accountability through the passage of the City
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Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams stand with police and religious leaders to pray for shooting victims in Grand Army Plaza. (Elizabeth Elizalde / Sunset Park Voice)People of different faiths held hands in prayer to honor victims of last week’s Louisiana, Minnesota, and Dallas
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Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus.Below you’ll find information on events through the week in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Check back Thursday to see what’s scheduled this weekend! Submit your event listing to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR. MONDAY JULY 11 (Courtesy Gabriella Mann)Mindful Mondays [https: