“Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a transforming person. He was able to help you to understand your intrinsic worth. Unfortunately, our young people and some of our older people know our athletes and entertainers and those kept before us on various forms of media. But they don’t necessarily know those people who have changed the […]Read More
Last week, hundreds of fast-foodworkers walked off their jobs in New York as part of an unprecedented week of strikes in seven cities across the country that’s hitting Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Flint, Michigan. The workers, seen here on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn, are calling for a $15 per-hour-wage, the […]Read More
In Memory of Trayvon and Kamau While thousands marched and rallied protesting the not guilty verdict bestowed upon George Zimmerman, (white,) in the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, another 17-year-old African-American youth, Kamau Chandler, was shot and killed on Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Fulton Street on July 27 in an encounter with two Black males. […]Read More
By Mary Alice Miller Descendants of African people gathered from all over the region to bring collective memory in tribute to Dr. John Henrik Clarke. The event, held at Boys and Girls High School, was hosted by the Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry. Remembrances for Dr. Clarke came from Newark City […]Read More
Photos and text by: Lem “Juice” Peterkin The work of Pinn, Kinard, Weusi and a host of others in establishing Brooklyn around 1963 as the center of New York City’s community activism is reported widely. But a man named “Jocko” – a teen in ’63 who later became “Mayor of Brownsville” — is the hero […]Read More
By Stephen Witt If a history of civic, community and business involvement is any indication then Bedford-Stuyvesant residents are in very capable hands with Community Board 3’s new chief administrator. That after the CB3 board both accepted the resignation of its longtime Chair Henry Butler and then promptly hired him to replace the retiring Charlene […]Read More
By Mary Alice Miller We have seen this story before. Financial mismanagement led to the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. Decades of mismanagement by two successive consultant companies led to the fateful acquisition of LICH by SUNY Downstate and the subsequent divestment. Now we know last December’s bankruptcy filing from Interfaith Medical Center […]Read More
Sharonnie Perry: “Everything is not final yet.” Read More