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Billy Mitchell: The Brooklyn Resident Who is Harlem’s Mr. Apollo

by Fern Gillespie The Apollo Theatre is entrenched in Black music culture and Brooklyn resident Billy Mitchell has witnessed that superstar history during the last 60 years. He’s called “Mr. Apollo.” A charming storyteller, his impact has earned him the official title of Apollo’s Director...

Key Notes on Weston, Coltrane, Miles, Melba and other Jazz Centennials…

"In 1926, as the Harlem Renaissance surged and the music was transforming American culture, a generation of musicians who would lead jazz into its next golden age was born."Earlier this year, WBGO's Sarah Geledia, and other media announced the centennials of eight legendary jazz...

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Embracing the Black Is Beautiful Legacy:

The Grandassa Models Intergenerational Reflections In the words of the late scholar Elombe Brath, The...

Meet Carter G. Woodson,The Father of Black History Month

By Yvette MooreCarter Godwin Woodson was the African American educator, journalist, and historian heralded...

Black History Month Will Never Be Cancelled Says ASALH

By Fern GillespieWhile Donald Trump was destroying community enrichment DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusive)...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Plans for 100th Anniversary

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a national landmark dedicated to the...

Black History Month Paused??

Pentagon intelligence agency pauses events, and activities related to MLK Day, Black History Month By...

When the Bones were Returned

By Yvette MooreIn October 2003, when the bones of 18th century formerly enslaved Africans...

What Would Dr. King do?

Trump inauguration. Time of turmoil, testing resolve By Nayaba ArindeEditor at Large“We can’t slow up...

“Remains” of a History and a Scholar’s Gift, Remembered

New York’s Seventeenth-Century African Burial Ground in History by Christopher Paul Moore New York’s African Burial...

Keen Vision for Lower Manhattan Historic Landmark and its Sacred Ground

There are few places that inspire as much passion as the African Burial Ground...

How Frankie Crocker created the WBLS Sound and Revolutionized Black Radio

Fern GillespieThe origin story of WBLS-FM is part of radio folklore. Its chief storyteller...

We’ve Come This Far by Faith: Brooklyn’s Black Churches

Brooklyn’s African American Protestant denominations were born of discrimination and a desire for self-expression...

Maurice Bishop & Thomas Sankara

By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsIn the 1980’s two young Black heads of state, just...

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