By Fern GillespieThe theme for Earth Month 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics.” For Qiana Mickie, Executive Director, of NYC Mayor’s Office of Urban Agriculture, “Planet vs....
View From HereDavid Mark GreavesHere we are trapped in America’s history of Europeans bringing to the continent an innate belief in White supremacy, the genocide of...
This story was originally published by THE CITY – by Gabriel Poblete and Rachel Holliday Smith April 16, 2024 ‘Containerization’ is coming to New York City....
As Nation’s Week-Long (Apr 11-17) Awareness Initiative Begins Nation-wide initiatives to attract attention to Black maternity health matters begin today in observance of Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW),...
B. Elizabeth GreenBAM’s DanceAfrica 2024: The nation’s largest salute to African and African Diasporic dance, music, arts traditions and their global impact, returns to the Brooklyn...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeIt is Black Maternal Health Week.Mamas gather here.The joy, the trials, the innovation, the sheer magic of it all. Carrying and raising the babies...
By Mary Alice MillerEvery now and then Gov. Hochul seems to forget who helped her get her slim margin of victory in her first full term...
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James earlier this week announced that she has reached an agreement on proposed relief from conspiracy theorists who...
“Preserving Memories, Preserving Ourselves” To encourage us to hold on to ancestral memory, the wise late Joan Maynard challenged us...
by Bernice Elizabeth GreenBefore the hot comb and smoothing ointments became the must-have hair products for women of color at...
By Lisa DurdenHey y’all, it’s your girl Lisa Durden, and you know I had to kick off Women’s History Month...
By Fern GillespieAt this year’s New York State Association of Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislators in Albany, Governor...
Philadelphia Residents Seek Monuments to Giants in the City’s Black History, Unknown to the Rest of the World A member...
The Right Reverend Vashti Murphy McKenzie, International Preacher, to Deliver the Word Church Triumphant: Last week, The Reverends David B....
By Chaitram AkluStarting in 1910 during the Great Migration, Harlem had become a major destination for African Americans migrating from...
By Fern GillespieBlack churches and Freedom Schools are now the sites where frustrated Black Florida residents are bringing family and...
