{"id":35706,"date":"2025-11-11T02:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T02:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:59:17","slug":"brooklyn-remembers-judge-babatunde-akowe-for-service-and-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35706\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn remembers Judge Babatunde Akowe for service and leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/category\/politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">leaders<\/a> and community members are mourning the loss of Hon. Babatunde Akowe, a Justice of the New York City Civil Court in Kings County\u2019s 2nd Municipal District. Akowe, who was elected to the bench in November 2023 and began his 10-year term in January 2024, died unexpectedly over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Crown Heights, Akowe dedicated his life to advancing equity through policy. He was a graduate of Lincoln University, Temple University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. A proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Lincoln, Akowe was deeply committed to its mission of service. During his tenure on the Civil Court, he remained active in community engagement as a member of Community Board 3.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/judge-babatunde-akowe-brooklyn-obit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Brooklyn Paper &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBrooklyn remembers Judge Babatunde Akowe for service and leadership &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Brooklyn leaders and community members are mourning the loss of Hon. Babatunde Akowe, a Justice of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[20744,98,18390,100,99,18869,20745,20746,398,4275,9,24,12,370,63,17961],"class_list":["post-35706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-babatunde-akowe","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-democratic-party","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-community-leadership","tag-farah-louis","tag-kings-county-court","tag-letitia-james","tag-local-politics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-rodneyse-bichotte-hermelyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}