Five Brooklyn-based nonprofits won $100,000 awards to support their local racial justice work, the Brooklyn Community Foundation announced Thursday.Recipients of the foundation’s annual Spark Award were...
by Bernice Elizabeth GreenWhen Ishmael Reed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning self-described satirist playwright, tells a story, it is told, and the message is usually delivered “on time”!Currently...
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Dr. Crumpler, born in Christiana, Delaware in 1831 and transitioned in March 1895, in Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts, was the first African...
The Talented Ribkins By Ladee Hubbard 289 pp. Melville House Publishing Black speculative fiction, on the rise, encompasses and blurs the genres of magical realism, Afrofuturism, horror,...
Phoenix Rising – From Restoration to Innovation At some point in the development process, the grounds along Tubman/Fulton St. between Brooklyn and New York Avenue will...
By Mary Alice MillerBrownsville is considered a food desert, with 15 corner stores/bodegas to every one supermarket. Brownsville is also a food swamp, with a concentration...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green March 20, the first day of the 2023 Spring season, comes in with the sonic boom of Global Story Telling Day.And the...
New York, NY, June 27, 2025 – The Abolition Commemoration Day Committee is presenting its fourth Abolition Commemoration Day in...
NEW ORLEANS – Earlier this month, Dillard University, in partnership with the City of New Orleans and University Medical Center...
by NZINGHAJune is the month where we celebrate Father’s Day. It’s the day we honor men who embody the task...
The “Batman and Robin” of The Black Arts Movement by Cinque BrathMy father was not recognized for his unique parenting...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large“What would Malcolm X do?”Hundreds of New Yorkers asked as they came out to honor Malcolm X, who...
“Mothers are the peace on Earth that make the world go round. The love they give is always of hope...
By Da’Nelle Mason, at Age 9 It’s not everyday that a person gets to go back into the past. On...
-Bernice Elizabeth Green In late winter 1998, artist-photographer Barry L. Mason, his daughter, Da’Nelle Mason and I attended an Underground...
