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Skal Cafe was also awarded the grant. Photo Courtesy of VH1 and Black-Owned Brooklyn.Black-Owned Brooklyn, run by the husband and wife duo Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa, has been featuring businesses on their Instagram and online publication since 2018 [/black-owned-brooklyn/]. The pandemic highlighted issues and inequalities that have
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Owner Chris Gandsy. Courtesy of @blackownedbklyn.People often don’t realize Chris Gandsy’s biscuits are gluten-free – even after they’ve eaten a few. He’s made them for plenty of southerners, he said, who might say little other than “these are some damn good biscuits.” Gandsy, who owns the
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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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Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa. Photo by Curt Saunders/ Courtesy of Giwas.What started two years ago as a project to spotlight overlooked Black-owned businesses has blossomed into one of the hottest digital publications about our borough. Bklyner first [/black-owned-brooklyn/] met Black-Owned Brooklyn [https://www.blackownedbrooklyn.com/], operated by
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Genesis Tramaine. Photo by Keenon Perry.BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – It’s hard not to notice the synergy between artist Genesis Tramaine and gallery owner Richard Beavers. They share a spiritual faith that God’s hand is guiding their individual life journeys, which led their paths to cross. Their unusual first meeting nine
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – “Becky – girl, go.” This is a part of what Jyll Hubbard-Salk, founder of the Crown Heights yoga studio Urban Asanas [http://www.urbanasanas.com/], said when discussing the gentrification of the neighborhood she grew up in at the panel discussion Black-Owned Businesses: A History of Enterprise and Community
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Glenn Alan and Cynthia Gordy, the duo behind Instagram’s “Black Owned Brooklyn” (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)Last week, our list of black-owned coffeeshops [/black-owned-coffee-shops-alternatives-to-starbucks-in-brooklyn/] generated an enormous reader response. Even Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams got in on the action, launching a #BLKCoffeeInBK [https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLKCoffeeInBK?src=hash]