SPRINGTIME IN AMERICAWe are happy that the Joe Biden Administration is proof positive of American excellence and able to get things done by designated dates. It is good to note that Americans are interested in the COVID19 vaccines and are in eager pursuit of the inoculation. Maybe herd immunity is near. This nation is one […]readmore
Excerpt from Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells In 2020, the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a Special Citation to Ida B. Wells “for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.” Michelle Duster, one of Ida B. […]readmore
By Alicia Boyd If you are like most people in NYC you really don’t pay attention to the Primaries, you wait until the November election and then you go out and vote, believing that your vote matters. However, what you may not know or even have paid attention is the fact that in truth, the […]readmore
OTP 2-Part Series to Examine Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering Voter suppression and gerrymandering are the tools the Republicans are using to win elections. They are not interested in democracy, only Republican rule. A report from the Brennan Center For Justice “a nonpartisan law and policy institute,” details the lengths the GOP is going to, in […]readmore
Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, the chair of Lehman College’s Africana Studies department, is exploring the collective action of Black women to combat the pandemic’s impact on human rights, gender and race in their communities in her newly created course Africana Women Lead Through the COVID-19 Crisis.Given the preexisting economic, education, housing and health inequities among communities […]readmore
Thehill.comRep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) released an official statement on Thursday celebrating her historic nomination to become President-elect Joe Biden’s Secretary of the Department of Interior.Haaland, who has been backed by a number of progressive groups as well as tribes, would take over a sprawling, 70,000-person agency with a mandate from Biden to help deliver on his […]readmore
Starting tomorrow through December 13 by Bernice Elizabeth Green “You need the best ingredients when you’re going to cook,” wrote Maya Angelou. “The writer has to take some nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, et cetera, and boil them up in such a way that you can throw them against the wall, and they’ll bounce. “When […]readmore
For Multi-Venue, Borough-Wide Experience, December 4 – December 13, 2020 Brooklyn is fast-becoming a world-class jazz capital, and while much credit goes to hundreds of music legends born in Kings County –Roach, Weston, Horne, Mann and so many more, the borough’s principal jazz booster, in our opinion, is the legendary Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium. This […]readmore
