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Friday, October 22, 2021

BROOKLYN COLLEGE LAUNCHES NEW CANCER CENTER: Brooklyn College has formally launched the Brooklyn College Cancer Center — BCCC-CURE, standing for Community Outreach, Research and Education —and the first education-based center of its kind in Brooklyn focused on research and community partnerships. 

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PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM TOXINS IN BABY FOOD: New York Attorney General Letitia James, leading a coalition of 23 attorneys general, today petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to protect the health and well-being of babies by accelerating actions to remove toxic heavy metals found in infant and toddler foods.

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CO-NAMING FOR HAITIAN EARLY PIONEER: Members of Brooklyn’s Haitian and Caribbean American communities will honor an icon of Haitian history on Sunday, October 24 with a street co-naming for a part of Flatbush Avenue at the intersection of Clarendon Rd.

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Eastern Phoebe. Photo by Heather Wolf, text by Joseph Palmer.

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WARHOL IN IRAN Fatemeh Rezaei, a retired teacher, WARHOL IN IRAN Fatemeh Rezaei, a retired teacher, stood next to a Marilyn Monroe portrait by American artist Andy Warhol at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, on Tuesday. Iranians flocked to Tehran’s contemporary art museum to marvel at American pop artist Andy Warhol’s iconic work. Link in bio.
HOW THE MTA SPENT MILLIONS ON A COST-CUTTING EFFOR HOW THE MTA SPENT MILLIONS ON A COST-CUTTING EFFORT THAT SPURRED A WORKER SHORTAGE The promise of a “new, modern MTA” came in 2019 as the transit agency dropped $4 million on a consulting firm’s blueprint for a makeover largely built on eliminating jobs. Then, six senior executives were brought in to carry out then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “historic reorganization” of the MTA. They pulled in six-figure salaries that totaled nearly $2 million annually, including money for relocating and housing expenses. Read the full story on our website. Click the link in our bio.
BID TO UNIONIZE AMAZON WORKERS IN NY NEARS MILESTO BID TO UNIONIZE AMAZON WORKERS IN NY NEARS MILESTONE A bid to unionize Amazon workers at a distribution center in New York City neared an important milestone, as organizers prepared to deliver hundreds of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board as soon as Monday for authorization to hold a vote. Organizers say they have collected signatures from more than 2,000 employees at four Amazon facilities in Staten Island. Read the full story by clicking the link in our bio.
ERIC ADAMS, CURTIS SLIWA SPAR IN 1ST NYC MAYORAL D ERIC ADAMS, CURTIS SLIWA SPAR IN 1ST NYC MAYORAL DEBATE The two men running to become New York City’s next mayor offered starkly different visions Wednesday about how to lead the nation’s largest city out of the pandemic, improve public safety and gird the city of 8.8 million people for more powerful storms driven by climate change. Read the full story by clicking the link in our bio.
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