El Puente’s signature summer annual event hits Maria Hernandez on Saturday. It promises to be a public outlet for art and self expression, by way of break dancing
El Puente’s “Break for Justice” event returned for its fifth year at Maria Hernandez Park. And the dancers did not disappoint.
Targeting kids north of kindergarten, Alva Calymayor puts together coloring books, playing cards and art boxes to teach children about social justice
A quick, and incomplete guide on how to support the BLM movement and ongoing George Floyd Protests
The Bushwick reproductive rights group is pushing for lasting change through specificity and inclusivity.
The Brooklyn Packers, a Brooklyn-based food cooperative, invited everyone to party in the name of justice at Bushwick Starr.
Justice Kavanaugh was sworn into the United States Supreme Court earlier this month despite being accused of sexual assault by professor Christine Blasey Ford.
“Yeah, all lives matter and like, humans need to treat humans properly, but seriously, there’s something systematically wrong, where people devalue the life of black men.”
The winter solstice is coming to Bushwick two days early this year
A shooting last year at a charter school haunts an anti-gun violence rally in East Williamsburg
“If there’s anyone our students can see themselves in, it’s Jacqueline”
Tension did erupt, briefly.
A local nonprofit runs a weekly farmers market at Maria Hernandez Park.
“How many other films like this have been left on the floor?”
The club’s non-profit arm wants to create a “grassroots community of advocates” around Bushwick.
La inacción de Dilan también está perjudicando a los inmigrantes neoyorquinos
Ahead of intense negotiations over the New York state budget, Dilan’s former primary opponent says the assemblyman can’t be found.
Why a former Democracy Now war correspondent opened the Starr Bar in Bushwick
Anti-fashion and anti-beauty have, ironically, become a trend of its own this year.
In advance of NYFW, we’re looking at some of the hottest local names and brands to look out for
Guided by queer goddesses, she becomes a mermaid who dives into the depths of the ocean to found the “Mermaid Femme Empire.”
“That’s the kind of thing that happens when a community gets split.”
“I do credit the negative campaign and the mailers for the fact that we didn’t win”
The new Bushwick politician’s signature accomplishment has been landing a program to pay for doula services in marginalized neighborhoods.
Voter suppression still happens in New York “in insidious ways”
Justin McHugh’s first New York show can’t commit to the bit
A pop-up paint class! A UFC Fight! A Garbage Prom!
Calvin Z. Heyward, a local writer and educator, writes more about some of the struggles Black fathers endure and overcome.
La prohibición de los vaporizadores de gas fracturado es el objetivo más reciente en la larga oposición contra Nacional Grid que activistas locales y residentes llevan realizando.
Few things are better than meeting new friends who share similar interests with you.
The fight against the fracked gas vaporizers is the latest hurdle in an ongoing battle that local activists and residents have been waging against National Grid for years.
State Senator Julia Salazar opens up about her youth, inspirations, early battles with public perception and more.
