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Alfonso Boatright II: “I have never measured my life simply by wins and losses.”

Introducing Alfonso Boatright II ... Over the past 30 years, Our Time Press has spotlighted hundreds of purposed individuals whose lifeworks have inspired many. In celebration of our milestone, this fall we are spotlighting compassionate, goal-oriented individuals, committed to motivating others -- especially our youth...
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Adams Pilots Brownsville Stress-Free Zone for Pregnant and Postpartum New Yorkers

On Tuesday, the New York City Health Department launched the City’s first-ever pilot of the Neighborhood Stress-Free Zone (NSFZ) in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to address priorities voiced by pregnant and postpartum New Yorkers and their families and the recommendations of New York City’s Maternal Mortality...

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Enduring Legacies Realized and Respected

African Burial Ground Memorial Foundation Finalizes Philanthropic Partnership Agreement with U.S. National Park Service...
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Brownstone Revival: The Rebirth of the Brooklyn Townhouse

Still going strong today, a back-to-the-city movement wasn’t initiated by or for rich white...
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ON THE ROAD TO POUGHKEEPSIE

Reprint, From August 1998 Special Edition: Tawana Brawley “Evidence Concealed Now Revealed: Great White Hoax...
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Somewhere to Be

Text and photos by Bernice Elizabeth Green While the drama in Manhattan’s Watson Hotel –...
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Like Before

Our Time At Home: Brooklyn & Beyond By Diane Collins After nearly 80 years our home...
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 20,000 Historic African American Items in Elizabeth Meader Collection Up for Auction as Single Item

Traces Black experience in America from the Revolutionary War and beginnings of U.S. Slavery through the...
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Our Time At Home: On LocationVictorian Gilded Age Has Continuous ConnectionsFrom Brooklyn to Red Bank, NJ; Manhattan,Troy, NY and Back

While the City of Troy is featured prominently throughout ‘The Gilded Age,” HBO’s new ten-episode 1880s...
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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Announces Blueprint for Change

A couple of years ago, a resident summed up for Our Time Press his...
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Working with Scooter Joe

A Remembrance In the Spring of 1969, as a rookie police officer not long after...
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Remembering Bed-Stuy’s “Scooter Joe”

Peace-and-Justice during the age of aggressive policing More than forty years ago, two Bedford Stuyvesant...
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Dispatch from Rural Ghana

… where Hand Washing is Sustainable on Purpose Two years ago, Brooklyn’s Stephen Mohney and...
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Tributes

to My Beloved Sister: Barbara Allimadiby Milton Allimadi, Publisher, Black Star News  Many people who...
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