Make time for Dodge Y Lunar New Year Celebration on the Brooklyn Patch calendar ...

Gwen Davis sings at Berean Baptist Church in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Fiona Murphy/Religion News Service via AP) NEW YORK (RNS) — On Sunday ...

A Black History Month exhibition transforms six Black-owned Myrtle Avenue businesses into an open-air gallery honoring Richard Wright, Octavia Butler and other influential Black authors through ...

Raised in Crown Heights, Dr. McKinney Steward was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in New York. A true American pioneer, Dr. Susan McKinney Steward was the first Black woman to earn a ...

A notable number of Black residents are leaving the city — no longer able to afford it. I might be one of them.

Harlem was long considered the epicenter of black political power in this city, but now Brooklyn, with three newly elected black candidates, has become the new home for much of the city’s black ...

On Sunday mornings in Brooklyn, nicknamed the borough of churches, the muffled sounds of choir singers, hand‑claps and Hammond organs can be heard from the sidewalks. The borough still has a church on ...

EDITORS’ NOTE: The Sunday streets of the borough of churches still vibrate with gospel chords, yet inside many of Brooklyn’s storied Black sanctuaries, the choir lofts have thinned dramatically.