By David Mark GreavesThe federal charges of bribery and campaign finance violations against Mayor Eric Adams are disappointing and painful for supporters to hear and for...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor at Large“I’m not going to resign; I’m going to reign,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams, vowing to fight federal charges of...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsA sampling of thoughts from twenty-seven Black women mostly from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, but also including women from the Bronx, Charlotte, NC, Fort Lauderdale,...
By Mary Alice Miller Voters will be asked to weigh in on six ballot proposals in the 2024 General Election. Five are derived from the NYC...
By Fern GillespieIt was 1971, the height of the Black Arts Movement, and the progressive voices of Black writers, poets, playwrights, actors, musicians, scholars and artists...
“For the People: The Driving Force Behind Kamala Harris” Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneThe Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala HarrisPenguin Press,...
By Mary Alice MillerRemember Georgia? You know, that time on January 2, 2021 when former President Donald, now convicted felon, Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of...
By Col. (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings,U.S. ArmySpecial to the AFRO“All last night, guns shook on the ground on which I...
Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davisat the funeral of Malcolm XFaith Temple Church of GodFebruary 27, 1965“Here – at this final...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change, and maybe Brooklyn can lead the way. The population in NYC who...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change. “Now is the time” Rev. Jesse Jackson famously said to mobilize the...
By Peter M. WilliamsNABJ Black News & ViewsAs we come upon the second celebration of Juneteenth as a national holiday,...
June 19, 1865 is the date that slaves in Texas and other parts of the south learned about their freedom,...
Alice W. Wiley Seay by The Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson(Part III of Four) by Rev. Dr. Emma Simpson-JordanOn April 11,...
Reprint from Our Time Press,March, 1996From the PublisherThe mother buried with her child in the African Burial Ground in lower...
