Part II of Four-Part Series* *Note: Part One of reporter Dulan-Wilson's continuing on-location Wall Street Project stories can be seen at www.ourtimeathome.com The Rainbow Push Wall Street Project Economic Summit got under way with a full house, as usual, as more than 700 attendees showed up...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's 17th Annual Rainbow Push Wall Street Project kicks off Tuesday, February 11, 2014, at a reception at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, at 5:00PM. Normally this event would have taken place in January – and has done so for...

BY Gloria Dulan-Wilson One of the greatest icons of the Black Power and Black Arts Movement has made his transition to the ancestors – Brother Amiri Baraka – who was born Everett Leroy Jones and later changed his name to LeRoi Jones, made his transition...

  By Gloria Dulan-Wilson - January 5, 2014   New Yorkers Breathe Easier as Mayor de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer and Public Advocate James take Oaths of Office: Let the Healing Begin!   With history having been made in New York, as the Borough of Brooklyn made a clean sweep,...

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson Lou Wilson of Mandrill made his transition to the ancestors at the beginning of this year, January 7, 2013. Lou, an accomplished musician and instrumentalists, wrote most of the lyrics and of course the music that made the Mandrill funk band famous: "Fence...

By Gloria Dulan-Wilson To state that 2013 is a pivotal year in Black history is an understatement.  We are celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the 100th Anniversary of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; and...

My heart goes out to those families in Sandy Hook, Connecticut who so tragically lost their children and loved ones at the hands of Adam Lanza. I watched in horror as scene after scene of police working to get the children safely to their...

Congressman Edolphus Towns (D-NY), 10th CD, former chair and now ranking member, of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on mortgage servicing practices and the foreclosure crisis, obviously dismayed over the rising number of foreclosures in Brooklyn – 16,000 in the past year...

We often hear about the American Dream of homeownership being lost to many of us; or that it's a thing of the past. There is a segment of Brooklyn, however, that would seriously beg to differ with those negative statements, because they've been keeping...

On July 15, 2010, Governor David Paterson made history in New York by signing into law the first comprehensive legislation for the inclusion of Minority and Women Business Enterprises in the bid and business process throughout the state.  It is now a law of...

Back in the day,The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield sang a song entitled "Too Much Love" which said in part, "never in this world can there be too much love." And I certainly felt that sentiment was expressed over and over again at the PHENOMENAL...