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Black August 2026 – Get Involved and Be Outside

By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsThe attacks are happening in real time, right now. The loss of Black congressional districts in Louisiana and Tennessee. Masked agents from ICE “wilding” in NYC and across the country. White South Africans prioritized for migration. Haitian and Somali people...

“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 Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a...

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

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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...

Brooklyn Savvy Explores African-American Genealogy and Racial Identity

by Toni WilliamsIn the latest episode of Brooklyn Savvy, host Toni Williams and an...

Dr. Raymond Codrington: The 1866 Freedman’s Torchlight Newspaper was a Beacon for Brooklyn’s Weeksville Community

By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was...

Shirley and Kamala

Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first woman Vice President will go down in...

New York Public Library Celebrates 100th Birthday of James Baldwin Across Library System

NYPL will honor one of its most legendary patrons with exhibitions at libraries he...

40 Acres Given to 1200 Former Chattel Slaves, Then Taken Away

By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former...

Remembering D-Day: Honoring the Black, Buried, Missing at Normandy American Cemetery

By Col. (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings,U.S. ArmySpecial to the AFRO“All last night, guns shook...

An Homage to Malcolm X

Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davisat the funeral of Malcolm XFaith Temple Church of GodFebruary...

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Brooklyn’s New Political Stage

By Nayaba Arinde“Both disgusted and disappointed is how Central Brooklyn Democrats are feeling,” a...

OBH Maternal & Infant Health Series Part 1: “Giving NICU Babies the Best Start.”

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By Mary Alice MillerThe U.S. Supreme Court’s most high-profile decision, this term, upheld birthright...

Our Time At Home: Central Brooklyn and Beyond-Is the Future of Bedford-Stuyvesant Being Shaped Now?

As Democrats regroup, is the DSA looking to control the narrative… and the neighborhoods? By...