Women under 40 discuss their decisions to remove their breasts and ovaries to prevent cancer. Produced by Gabrielle A. Wright.

Prophylactic Measures

These are the ACS breast cancer screening recommendations
for women at higher risks such as:

Women with dense breast tissue: Mammogram every year

Women at greater than 20 percent average lifetime risk of invasive breast cancer based mainly on family history: Mammogram and Breast MRI every year starting 10 years younger than the youngest breast cancer case in the family (but not younger than 30)

Why It's So Hard To Get A Mammogram Before My 30th Bday

The Non Voters Vote part  4 - Avoid coming to America

The Non Voters Vote part  5 - A mother in Brooklyn says deport delinquents

Dawn Critelli tells her story of dating with breast cancer to PavementPieces.com reporter Gabrielle Wright.
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Survivor Barbie - Dating after breast cancer

African Americans and History at Inauguration

Looting, fires and closed down business brought Bushwick, Brooklyn to a standstill during the historic black out of 1977. But ash and vacant buildings are fertile ground for revival. Since then, Bushwick has become a magnet for struggling artists and Williamsburg overflow, and now like most gentrifying neighborhoods across the nation: a clash of cultures and agendas.

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Bushwick's revival brings new faces, rent hikes and rapid change

Red Hook took on the role of being Atlantis' distant cousing from Brooklyn when Hurricane Sandy submerged it. Four months later, Red Hook businesses are reopening up to lobster roll junkies and Fairway customers. In perfect step, Emergency Management Methodology Partners and Mahalia Partnership came together to collect the stories of Sandy-stricken of Red Hook residents to help them heal and raise money.

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Red Hook, tell your story

Some profanity. Explored in this radio documentary: "We are the harbingers of gentrification,” said artist, Jennifer Dalton. “One way of looking at it is neighborhoods change and that is natural, but another way of looking at it is artists are on the front lines of ruining other people’s situations and space. It’s ethically complicated,” she said. 


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The art of gentrification in Bushwick

Where street art and graffiti once tagged the brick and mortar of abandoned buildings, they now zigzag around art studios and galleries. Struggling artists and hopeful gallery owners fled to Bushwick in search of cheap rent and a breeding ground for a new, experimental anti-Chelsea art scene. Since then Bushwick has become a magnet for more people, more businesses and anything else indicating “next big thing”, and next big thing, means Bushwick is moving a little closer to being a pricey twin to Williamsburg. 

Interviews from the Bushwick Soapbox at Studio 10 Gallery.
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