Shawn, the Men’s Empowerment Coordinator with Make It Happen, sat down to share about his time with the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center. Shawn joined the Mediation Center through a position with Make It Happen, a program that works to give young men between the ages of 16 and 24 who have experienced violence the […]
CONTINUE READINGBrooklyn Deep is looking for Crown Heights residents who have had experiences with issues of policing in Crown Heights and are interested in sharing their perspectives through the telling of their individual oral histories. They are collecting histories across generational, racial, faith-based and sexual identity backgrounds and from all geographic sections of the Crown Heights community. […]
CONTINUE READINGThis week the Mediation Center and Crown Heights Jewish Community Council celebrated the accomplishments of the young women in the Youth Entrepreneurship Program with a graduation ceremony and book launch party for the cookbook they created, Crown Heights is Cookin’. The young women, from diverse backgrounds themselves, interviewed and photographed a diverse group of Crown […]
CONTINUE READINGThis Wednesday, the Paul Robeson High School students part of the Crown Heights Oral History Project will showcase their work at a community event at LaunchPad. Over the past several months, the students have interviewed over 45 people who have lived in Crown Heights for over 15 years, and in the process they have learned […]
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S.O.S. works hard to create safer and healthier neighborhoods and we invite you to join us in these efforts.
