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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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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.
BIRTHDAY ATTIRE A young Palestinian woman wore a BIRTHDAY ATTIRE A young Palestinian woman wore a flower crown over her hijab and gold accents in her eye makeup in the Old City of Jerusalem on her way to prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound marking Moulid al-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, on Tuesday. Click the link in our bio to view more photos from around the globe.
CHAIR OF NY DEMOCRATS FACES CRITICISM OVER KKK REM CHAIR OF NY DEMOCRATS FACES CRITICISM OVER KKK REMARK The chairman of the New York Democrats is facing condemnation and calls to resign from members of his own party after he invoked the Ku Klux Klan and its former leader while explaining why he didn’t endorse a New York Democratic mayoral candidate. State Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs, who is white, apologized Monday evening for his comments about why he did not endorse India Walton, a Black woman and socialist community activist who is the Democratic nominee for Buffalo mayor. “My statement today on the mayor’s race in Buffalo has obviously caused an uproar that I did not intend,” Jacobs said in a statement released by the party. Read the full story by clicking the link in our bio.
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