By Monée Fields-White www.theroot.com Comedian Dick Gregory—who attacked racism through a biting and satirical style of comedy, and was equally well-known for his civil rights activism...
African-Americans may not have invented Memorial Day on May 1, 1865, but the following narrative from the Snopes Fact Checker gives us an opportunity to imagine...
By Priscilla Mensah Often, when we come across great leaders, whether it be through history textbooks, on the television or in our own lives, we wonder...
By Nidhi Prakash New York City, where women of color earn even less than their national counterparts, just approved a bill that will make it...
NEW YORK—The New York Public Library and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the library has decided to adopt a new name for Harlem’s 115th...
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...