Lloyd Cornelius Porter, the owner of the beloved Bread Stuy coffee shop, was considered the ‘Mr. Hooper’ of his Bedstuy neighborhood By Biba Adams.www.thegrio.com Lloyd Cornelius Porter, a beloved entrepreneur, and actor from Bedford-Stuyvesant passed away last week at the age of 49 from complications of coronavirus. He was also the brother of singer, Gregory […]Read More

Addresses City’s Overwhelmed “Death Care System” On Monday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams convened funeral home directors, faith leaders, morgue operators, cemeteries, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME), and other stakeholders for a Bereavement Task Force call on the Zoom platform as the city continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.To date, it is estimated […]Read More

April 29, 2020 Friends, We will continue to keep you up to date with our emails on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to greatly impact and surround our communities.As we continue to navigate COVID-19, we are doing everything we can to support our first-responders and frontline workers.We need your help, Brooklyn, […]Read More

The family, church family, and friends of Sr. Pastor Gwendolyn H. Dingle of the Pentecostal House of Prayer Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant mourn the recent passing of a beloved community contributor. Noted for her warmth and kindness, the pioneering Brooklyn native, daughter of the late Bishop Luther and Shepherd Mother Georgia Dingle, was raised in her […]Read More

Dr. Norma J. Goodwin, 82, pioneering medical doctor and minority health communicator extraordinaire, died on April 13 at the Brooklyn Downstate Medical Center. The cause was COVID-19 and pneumonia. Dr. Goodwin set her sights high on improving health outcomes for American people of color – Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans. She scuttled her career in […]Read More

Minister Louis Farrakhan National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam in the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Words are inadequate to express the pain, the shock, the turbulent thought processes that the passing of Brother Abdul Hafeez Muhammad has stirred in me, in my family, in his family […]Read More

By Ariama Long,Kings County Politics Brooklyn has seen many deaths in the last few months. Adding to that daunting list of men and women is the passing of Dr. Roy A. Hastick Sr., founder, president and CEO of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI). Hastick, 69, died early Thursday morning April 9, […]Read More

By Ariama Long,Kings County Politics Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Public Advocate Jumanne Williams, in a virtual press conference yesterday, addressed the morbid situation of unattended bodies in the borough’s nursing homes which was brought to light last week. “We knew at the start of COVID-19 that those who would have the most challenging time […]Read More