You’ve heard of Watergate, but in Bed-Stuy, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, there is a new scandal dubbed “Iron Gate” – and speculation is growing that...
For more than a week, dozens of health care workers at Brookdale Hospital have been lining the corridor just inside the hospital’s main entrance, professionally dressed...
The Coalition of Theatres of Color (CTC) honored award winning actor-director Arthur French with a Lifetime Achievement Award to commemorate his 50-year distinguished career in theatre,...
SATURDAY, JUNE 4: MAGNOLIA TREE EARTH CENTER of BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, INC, 677 LAFAYETTE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 9:30a-11:00a: OPEN GALLERY: (Breakfast Refreshments Served) Informal Tour of Community Mural...
The kids may have been in the kitchen, but the politicians were the ones doing the cooking. Their presence, though, was all for a good cause...
At the ripe old age of 19, Ms. Renegade found herself selling her body to survive. Now age 22, Ms. Renegade, who prefers not to use...
77th Precinct covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights Double shooting A gunman and his accomplice shot two teenagers on May 18, police said. The shootings occurred...
By Col. (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings,U.S. ArmySpecial to the AFRO“All last night, guns shook on the ground on which I...
Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davisat the funeral of Malcolm XFaith Temple Church of GodFebruary 27, 1965“Here – at this final...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change, and maybe Brooklyn can lead the way. The population in NYC who...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change. “Now is the time” Rev. Jesse Jackson famously said to mobilize the...
By Peter M. WilliamsNABJ Black News & ViewsAs we come upon the second celebration of Juneteenth as a national holiday,...
June 19, 1865 is the date that slaves in Texas and other parts of the south learned about their freedom,...
Alice W. Wiley Seay by The Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan-Simpson(Part III of Four) by Rev. Dr. Emma Simpson-JordanOn April 11,...
Reprint from Our Time Press,March, 1996From the PublisherThe mother buried with her child in the African Burial Ground in lower...
