by Bernice Elizabeth Green The landscape of Central Brooklyn is changing so rapidly one can hardly see the trees for the forest of developers’ tower lifts, scaffolding...
By Julianne Malveaux(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Students everywhere are anticipating, or already experiencing, their summer vacation. It means freedom from daily classes and the opportunity to break, “chill,”...
Anger, Self-Hatred and the Twisting of the Human Spirit The following is part two of a series based on the lectures of Joy DeGruy (Nee Leary),...
By Fern GillespieFor many years, Dr. Michelle King-Huger was a noted educator working as an assistant principal in several Harlem public schools. Then, in 2007, her...
Fern GillespieIn 1969, when the Black Arts Movement was emerging, educator-activist Jitu Weusi launched an Afro-centric cultural economic renaissance in Bedford Stuyvesant. It was the East....
JUNE is filled with celebrations. It is African American Music Appreciation Month; Alzheimer’s And Brain Awareness Month, Caribbean American Heritage Month LGBT PRIDE Month and Soul...
By Candace McDuffie,www.theroot.comEvery detail about how police delayed action from stopping a mass shooter in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 is more gut-wrenching than the last....
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...
