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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.
Bay Ridge
Photo via Najm Designs Photography, with permission.BAY RIDGE – Three hours, seven miles, and 23,000 steps. That is how long it took about 2,000 people to march from Bay Ridge to the Barclays Center. It was pouring early on in the day yesterday, but by the time it
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Brooklyn Protest – George Floyd – on May 29. By Adrian Childress/BklynerBROOKLYN – The murder of George Floyd, an innocent Black man, by a cop in Minnesota has caused unrest all throughout the country, including right here in Brooklyn. [/last-night-in-brooklyn-tonight-in-brooklyn-people-are-rising-up-against-injustice/] Police, who were supposed to protect protesters, have instead aggressively shoved, hit
Bay Ridge
A Muslim family says that they were attacked and harassed outside of a Bay Ridge TJ Maxx by a Trump-supporting white woman on Saturday, with the woman telling the family to “go back to your country.” Mido Mourad, a journalist originally from Egypt, says that he and his ex-wife were
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS—A person over the weekend put a noose outside a Pentecostal church in Crown Heights, in a possible hate crime, according to the NYPD. Police are reviewing surveillance footage from a building across the street from the United House of Prayer for all People at 1325 Park Pl,
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via hetalbot [https://www.instagram.com/p/BNm_SB9DmiM/?taken-by=hetalbot] /instagram)Written by Priscila Néri I wanted to share something that happened to me last Thursday night as I was getting off the Q train at Prospect Park with my 3-year-old son around 6pm. Right when we stepped
Bensonhurst
Mugshot of Manuel Israel via Brooklyn DA’s Office“This defendant specifically robbed Chinese women because they walked alone and he believed they wouldn’t fight back or be able to identify him,” Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced in a press release this morning. “Hate crimes based on
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New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca at an immigration hearing at City Hall in 2014. (Credit: William Alatriste / New York City Council / via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nyccouncil/15208342877/])After City Council Member Jumaane Williams, District 45, remained seated during the Council’s Pledge of Allegiance [/blog/
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(Photo courtesy Brad Lander / Twitter [https://twitter.com/bradlander])After City Council Member Jumaane Williams, District 45, remained seated during the Council’s Pledge of Allegiance [/blog/news/council-member-jumaane-williams-sits-pledge-stand-racial-justice/] earlier this month to protest racial injustice, seven other members followed suit yesterday, including Brad Lander of District 39. Lander calls
Bensonhurst
ACUS’ Warren Chan (Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst Bean)The head of a social service agency serving Bensonhurst’s Asian American community says he’s been converted when it comes illegal home conversions. Warren Chan, executive director of Asian Community United Society [http://www.acus-ny.org/] (ACUS) and founder of
Arts & Culture
A rehearsal of ‘All American Boys’ should work. (Courtesy of Off the Page Education)Teaching artists, public school students, award-winning authors and professional actors have combined their talents to produce All American Boys [http://pipertheatre.org/event/all-american-boys-2016-07-26/2016-07-26/], a theatrical drama exploring the impact of police violence on black
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461 15th Street from a photo in the Brooklyn Eagle, July 27, 1915. The sign reads: “This building for rent. COLORED people only. Boarding house preferred. Inquire Hudson Terminal Building, New York, Room 414.” (Via Brooklyn Eagle) Edward Reiss, owner of Marine Wrecking Company — meet Walter Kraslow of Kraslow Construction
Bensonhurst
Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Bensonhurst BeanOur reporting on the closure [/key-food-renews-interest-new-utrecht-waldbaums/] of the New Utrecht Avenue Waldbaums after 37 years, and the supermarket’s subsequent sale [/second-asian-market-bids-on-waldbaums-trader-joe-says-no-thanks/] to the Asian grocer Jmart, unearthed simmering anxieties about demographic changes in Bensonhurst. In some cases, comments on social media and our site
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If the owners of Sunset Park’s Fei Long Market [http://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklynhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklyn] were trying to keep their bid [/owners-of-sunset-parks-fei-long-market-bids-on-waldbaums/#.VqjXvJMrLe0] on the shuttered Bensonhurst Waldbaums supermarket under wraps, their plan has failed. Another Asian grocer — identified as “JMart Group Inc.” — has
Education
Fifty-four years may have passed since Martin Luther King Jr made his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, but that hasn’t been enough time for his dreams of a post-racial, harmoniously collaborative society to be fully realized. And it seems hundreds of Brooklyn Technical High School students would agree.
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Kenny Chen (Source: Facebook)Justice has been served for Kenny Chen’s killer, who fatally stabbed [/kenny-chen-stabbing-benson-ave-26-ave/] the Bath Beach teen on June 9, 2013. Peter Sedeno, 21, was convicted Tuesday, May 19, of all counts, including manslaughter and gang assault, following a jury trial, say prosecutors. During the trial