Professor William Henry Mackey, Jr., African Renaissance Man & Griot of Our Time

by Bernice Elizabeth Green*(*Originally published February 1997 in Our Time Press.)We expected our first interview with Professor William Mackey, Jr. to last 45 minutes, centering around...

Starting Out

Reflections: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By Laurie Nadel When I was two years old, my family moved into a two-story stucco and brick house on East 27th Street in the Flatbush...

Reflections: We Rest on Their Shoulders

My family has been by my side from the beginning– from the earliest days of our childhood when my father first started telling us the amazing...

Reflections: Holidays at the McNeely Home

By Selma Jackson Growing up in the Bronx, my parents, James and Anna McNeely made every effort to make holidays special for their five daughters. I...