James “Rocky” Robinson, Jr. was born on July 15, 1940, in Marietta, North Carolina, and moved to Brooklyn, NY. After attending Eastern District High School, Rocky served...
Beautiful, Black, Man The following sentence rests at the root and the spirit of America.The bodies of Black Men are to be worked and to be...
A Blaxit Life in Paris for Essence WomenAudrey Edwards and Karen Thomas By Fern GillespieOn the eve of Donald Trump’s January 20, 2017 inauguration, veteran journalist...
I had been a fisherman in the waters along the coasts of Zanzibar and the Island of Mafia, Tanzania for several years. I had had the...
Lena Gates, Principal of the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Junior High School, and American Airlines recently announced a partnership that...
Congratulations to David C. Banks, Chancellor, New York City Board of Education, and Councilwoman Rita C. Joseph, chair of the...
Dr. Christopher Blaszczak, originator of Our Time Press’ recurring STEM NEWS columns, pre-pandemic, returns to this paper as a columnist...
By Charlene CrowellAs college students settle into campus life, many Black Americans remember the multi-generational sacrifices that have established higher...
45 new superintendents to begin work tomorrow, July 1 NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Schools...
The college-choice decision of Morehouse in Atlanta as a goal came very early, and easy, to 14-year-old Zion of Green...
By Mary Alice MillerDewey Doughtry bought his home in Bed Stuy 30 years ago. In the past fourteen years, he...
Noelle Hanrahan, Esq.Prisondio Co-DirectorWe are locked in conflict up on the 8th floor of the Common Pleas Courthouse in Philadelphia,...
The Brooklyn NAACP celebrated 100 years of “advancing the cause of Civil Rights & Social Justice” at an evening gala...
By Dr. Brenda M. Greene The IssuesDr. Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, publisher, editor, educator, founder, and publisher of Third World...
In his reflections on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first argument on the court, Ian Prasad Philbrick writing in The New York...
On the first Monday in October, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson began her journey as an Associate Justice of the Supreme...