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Celebrate Legacy: Magnolia Tree Earth Center Honors Exceptional Role Models on May 19th Dance Party

Forty-five years ago Hattie Carthan, Bedford Stuyvesant resident and among the nation’s first African...
Arts-Theater

Black Lives Matter, Too; All Lives Matter

Of Law & Order: The actors portraying justice seekers and court personnel are, from...
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Arts-Theater

Chad Cooper Productions premieres Black Lives Matter, Too: All Lives Matter In Brooklyn at Medgar Evers College

 Medgar Evers College, Saturday, April 23 Theatrical Moves to Manhattan for June 28, 29,30 and...
OTP Print Edition

Print Edition: April 20, 2017

What's Going On

WHAT’S GOING ON By Victoria Horsford

HARLEM, USA  The 4/12 Schomburg Fete was quite an elaborate party. New Schomburg Center Director...
Community News

SENIORS: AGE-FRIENDLY AMBASSADORS

By Selma M. Jackson My mother and my grandmother both lived to be 94 years...
Community News

Educator Makes Encore Performance as Storyteller

By Margo Janet McKenzie At six o’clock one evening came Cynthia Goodison Tompkins taking deliberate...
City Politics

Nadler Pushes For Kushner Suspension Of Security Clearance

Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-Western Brooklyn, Manhattan) last week joined several Democratic House members in...
News around the Web

DeVos Civil Rights Office Pick Once Claimed Discrimination for Being White: Report – NBC News

by Safia Samee Ali Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has appointed as the acting...
City Politics

NYC’s Homeless Shelters: What Happened to “Fair Share”

By Akosua K. Albritton “Un-‘Fair’ and against the law!” This was the message of a...
Community News

Herkimer Street Apartments to Go Dark: Losing Line-of-Sight and Light

Tenants of 400 Herkimer Street held a rally this past Saturday, to protest developer...
City Politics

Mawuli Hormeku Challenges Inez Barron for East New York City Council Seat

By Kings County Politics Calling for a new direction in self-empowerment, Mawuli Hormeku today announced...
Black History

Mr. Kusunoki on Barack “Barry” Obama: High School Years

(As Told to Priscilla Sawsa Mensah) I first met Barack Obama in September or 1975. ...
Black History

The Making of a President

By Priscilla Mensah Often, when we come across great leaders, whether it be through history...
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Helped Me Find My Voice

by Hortensia Gooding On Dr. Norma Raybon, Spelman College "To inspire" originally carried a literal sense...
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View From Here

By David Mark Greaves It is widely acknowledged, and has been for some time, that...
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Kristen Clarke Named General Counsel of the NAACP

The NAACP today announced that Kristen Clarke, one of the nation's most respected civil...
Community News

Glyne’s Fulton St. Barber Truck

Interviewed by Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsTell us a little about yourself.My name is Glyne Maccup....