Performers at the Juneteenth Jubilee 2020 in Harlem, New York Courtesy The Blacksmiths and the Wide Awakes. Photo by Pascal Perich
This weekend, the arts groups The Blacksmiths and the Wide Awakes have teamed up to co-host Juneteenth Jubilee 2021, a free outdoor event in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn celebrating Black culture, liberation, and resiliency. The programme includes live music, with a performance stage located near the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, and an art walk of outdoor installations and participatory experiences by Black women artists.
A highlight of the event will be the unveiling of the Ethiopian American artist Helina Metaferia’s new mural on the site of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art’s forthcoming sculpture garden at 48 Lafayette Avenue. Titled Headdress 21 (2021), the mural features a portrait of the Wide Awakes artist Wildcat Ebony Brown under a collaged crown of images of civil rights activism. The mural, part of Meta
Meet the nominees for the 2021 People’s Choice Award
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
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Marvina Adams
Adams Dry Cleaning & Laundry LLC dba Martinizing 941530
1 year in business
“I provide resource(s) to communities that’s beneficial to families’ livelihood. I thrive when giving to those with whom I share space. I’m happiest when I can give not only a material product but a positive experience. I aspire to reenergize communities through family-oriented customer service and cultivate unity through positive experiences.”
Heroes Among Us: St. Mary’s ICU nurse blends skill, compassion for COVID patients | The Daily Gazette
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Registered nurse Candice Hayes stands in a patient bay in the St. Mary s Health Care intensive care unit on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.
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AMSTERDAM Candice Hayes was in the thick of the first COVID-19 surge at St. Mary’s Healthcare, and now she’s in the middle of a second.
The intensive care unit nurse said neither influx of patients has been easier to manage than the other the surge of patients in early spring came before there were good treatments for COVID, while the onslaught in late autumn brought much larger numbers of patients.