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Home » Archives for June 19, 2015

Daily Archives: June 19, 2015

Posted inArts & Entertainment, Beauty & Fashion, Bedford Stuyvesant, Featured News

AFROS, the Exhibit, at House of Art Gallery

by Brooklyn Reader June 19, 2015January 28, 2021

Don’t call it a comeback! (Because it really never actually went away). The magnanimous AFRO, sometimes shortened to ‘fro and also known as a “natural”, is a hairstyle worn by […]

Posted inBedford Stuyvesant, Featured News, Fort Greene / Clinton Hill

Noel Pointer Foundation to Celebrate 20 Years of Bringing String Music to More than 30,000 Inner City Youth

by Brooklyn Reader June 19, 2015January 28, 2021
Youth #BHeard: Fighting for a Voice, BRIC, Town Hall, Brian Vines, Jaritza Geigel, Ebro Darden, Nadia Lopez, Juan Thompson, Marlon Peterson
Posted inBedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Crown Heights, East New York, Featured News, Flatbush, Fort Greene / Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights

BRIC Hosts ‘Youth #BHeard’ Town Hall: Young People Fighting for a Voice

by Brooklyn Reader June 19, 2015January 28, 2021
Before There Were Home Pregnancy Tests
Posted inUncategorized

Before There Were Home Pregnancy Tests…

by Brooklyn Reader June 19, 2015January 28, 2021
New York is first state to allow pregnant women to sign up for Obamacare outside enrollment period
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New York is First State to Allow Pregnant Women to Sign up for Obamacare Outside Enrollment Period

by Brooklyn Reader June 19, 2015January 28, 2021

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