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Daily Archives: February 20, 2018

Bead Project Alumni, Artist Kenya Chester shows the Bead Project how to transform recycled glass into handmade beads.
Posted inBusiness & Innovation, Featured News, Fort Greene / Clinton Hill, Neighborhoods, Popular

This UrbanGlass Beadmaking Program Challenges and Changes Lives

by Shiloh Frederick February 20, 2018January 28, 2021

For over twenty years UrbanGlass’s beadmaking scholarship program has provided creative and entrepreneurial skills to artsy, low-income women in New York. When Lilly Burgos first saw an ad for The […]

podcast, On Air Fest, podcast festival, BK Reader, work x work, Laurie Anderson, The Moth, Surface Magazine, ESPN 30 for 30 Podcas, DJ Olivia Bradley-Skill, DJ Stretch Armstrong,
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Featured News

‘On Air Fest’ Presents Biggest and Freshest Voices of Podcast and Audio Industry at Inaugural Festival

by Andrea Leonhardt February 20, 2018January 28, 2021
Jumaane Williams, BK Reader, Councilmember Jumaane Williams, Councilmember Antonio Reynoso, Councilmember Brad Lander, Flatbush councilman, State Senator Kevin Parker, Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte, District 45, lieutenant governor, Office of Inspector General for the New York Police Department, the Fair Chance Act, housing, community policing, gun violence, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, NY State, NYC City Council, Flatbush, East Flatbush,
Posted inFeatured News, Flatbush, Lifestyle & Culture, Policy & Government

Flatbush Councilmember Jumaane Williams Announces Run for NY Lt. Governor

by Andrea Leonhardt February 20, 2018January 28, 2021

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