Month: December 2024

"It is going to be phenomenal," Vivian Scott Chew said about the eclectic, one-night concert slated for Carnegie Hall on Dec. 14. Featuring rhythm & blues siren Regina Belle, hip-hop rapper Doug E. Fresh, gospel queen Shirley Caesar, singer/actor Rahsaan Patterson, and a long list of accomplished musical stalwarts, "A Night of Inspiration" pairs the business partner and former record company executive with her husband Ray for their fifth annual […]

Hundreds of Brooklyn residents received gift packages, including turkeys and coats, on Monday, in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, as the Brooklyn Canarsie Lions Club hosted its 42nd Annual Community Thanksgiving Brotherhood Service. Temple Emanu El of Canarsie, on Rockaway Boulevard in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, was filled for the service and subsequent Thanksgiving giveaway. The distribution of gift packages and refreshments was preceded by an hour-plus-long service that […]

On Jan. 21, 2025, award-winning historian, professor, and artist Tao Leigh Goffe will have her highly anticipated debut book, "DARK LABORATORY: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" (published by Doubleday/Penguin Random House) released.  According to Penguin Random House, the book is "a groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to […]