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Tag: women’s rights

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

Honoring Greenpoint’s Pioneering Female Factory Workers

by Geoff CobbMarch 5, 2019March 5, 2019

The iconic industries of North Brooklyn were staffed by females who were underpaid and often worked in dangerous conditions. It’s high time we honor these anonymous, but heroic local workers. […]

Posted inCulture

Mae West’s Gay Drama That Shocked 1920s America

by Geoff CobbNovember 14, 2018November 15, 2018

Mae West was much more than a local-born movie star or even a sex symbol. She was a playwright, a woman decades ahead of her time in dramatizing questions of […]

Posted inCommunity, News

Watch: Day Laborers & Sexual Harassment in Hassidic Williamsburg

by GinaMarch 5, 2014March 4, 2014

Sometimes it’s important to take a break from talking about gentrification and overpriced lattes to remind ourselves that North Brooklyn is home to both the very rich and the very […]

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