By Gregory Krieg,Ethan Cohen and Adam Levy, CNN(CNN)The campaign to become New York City’s next mayor has come in for another twist.On Tuesday, the City Board...
Troy, NY: The honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the second African-American...
Major 100,000 “Discrepancy” Doesn’t Add Up After Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams released a statement Tuesday questioning New York City Board of Elections’ unofficial recent voting...
Anger, Self-Hatred and the Twisting of the Human Spirit The following is part two of a series based uponthe lectures of Joy Degruy (Nee Leary), M.S.W.,...
Grace Marie Goode Baker, a graceful, resilient woman and humanitarian, was born on October 26, 1914, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area in Brooklyn, New York to Thomas...
by Frank Holland for CNBC(First reported April 2021)Nearly a century after Black Wall Street — a center of Black business in the Greenwood district of Tulsa,...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Massacre. On May 30, the HISTORY CHANNEL premiered TULSA BURNING: THE 1921 RACE MASSACRE...
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...
