Black August: Courage Remembered

First Black Astronaut and America’s Secret Outer-Space Spy Program

Major Robert Lawrence was trained by the Air Force in an elite Cold War-era program. This is why you’ve never heard of him. Mark R. WhittingtonPhoto...

After Half-Century in Prison, Should Black Panther Be Left to Die?

Natasha LennardMarch 28 2021Sundiata Acoli is 84 years old and has been in prison for nearly half a century. When the state of New Jersey locked...

FOR MY SWEET- Jitu Weusi

By Angela WeusiLast Saturday the Putnam Triangle was renamed Jitu Weusi Plaza.It was such an honor “For My Sweet” to have community, friends, and family come...

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Occasion: Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was asked to give an address regarding the Fourth of July, at a meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery...