Reconnect Brooklyn is investing in people rather than properties, the residents who are struggling to remain in Bed-Stuy amid rising costs.

Gwendolyn Brooks' poetry presented readers with a look into the life of African-Americans.

At first encounter, Harmonia Rosales’s “The Creation of God” is striking. It is beautiful and familiar. Like Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” Rosales’s painting portrays the creation of humankind. However, the skin tones, gender and story being depicted by the artist are strikingly different.

If we expect law enforcement personnel to do their jobs properly, radical change is necessary.

The Defender was an essential community institution that shaped black ideas, politics and social life.