Fulton Street is named after Robert Fulton (born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania on November 14, 1765; died February 24, 1815), who was a U.S. engineer and inventor widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steam-powered steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship, and in 1800 was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history.
'Brother, I'm Dying'
Edwidge Danticat's book tells, in a painfully personal way, the blood- and tear-laced story of the U.S. relationship with Haiti. (read)
Brenda Greene of Medgar Evers College and Fred Beauford have edited a new book that is gaining quite a bit of attention, "Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing."
Murdoch Buys Brooklyn Paper
Tremaine Wright Declares Candidacy
Gentrification of Fort Greene
Murdoch Buys Brooklyn Paper
Tremaine Wright Declares Candidacy
Gentrification of Fort Greene
Brooklyn Ron Writes of Growing Up in Bed-Stuy
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Spike says Brooklyn, not Harlem, is the capital of Black America (read)
