— Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 —

Wellness Realness with Rachelle Robinett
274 36th Street Hygge Haus at Industry City
Time: 8:30am – 9:30am
FREE
Get the truth about some of the trendiest herbs and hacks in wellness today. Rachelle will clarify the hype and leave you with the know-how you need to incorporate a few herbs, food-medicines, and holistic health tactics into your life for better well-being overall. Sample an elixir, and bring questions!

The Impact of Amazon on Jobs & Small Businesses in New York City
96 Wythe Avenue at The Williamsburg Hotel
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Price: $15
This 2-hour event will focus on how Amazon’s HQ2 and Amazon Go cashier-less stores opening soon in NYC and across the country, combined with Amazon’s recent announcement to expand Whole Foods, will impact jobs and small businesses in NY.

The Blinding of a Soldier and the Dawn of the Civil Rights Movement
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Price: $10
In February 1946, black WWII veteran Sergeant Isaac Woodard was forced off the bus he rode home from the War, arrested, beaten, and blinded in the sheriff’s custody. This act of violence propelled Judge J. Waties Waring, who presided over the criminal case brought against the sheriff, to take on landmark civil rights cases, including some that laid the groundwork for the legal milestone Brown v. Board of Education. Revisit this history with Judge Richard Gergel, who recounts this story in his book Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Igniting of the Civil Rights Movement. Gergel is joined in a conversation by Woodard’s nephew and caretaker, Robert Young, and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill. Moderated by legal scholar Leon Friedman.

Literaryswag Book Club Presents: Call Them By Their True Names
150 Nevins Street at The Brooklyn Circus
Time: 7pm – 9:30pm
FREE
Literaryswag Book Club kicks off the new year with a candid conversation about Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection, Call Them By Their True Names, and the power that comes from calling things what they are.

Funk You
2 Wyckoff Avenue at House of YES
Time: 10pm – 4am
FREE
Tonight we give our love to that sweet sweet FUNK. We’ve got the grooves for your moves, the rhythm for your system and the beats to give you heat for a hot Wednesday night.

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