Circling the Wagons — What do we as a people owe to and want for our children? The answers will probably differ from person to person. ...
“A vague feeling of illness or depression” is how the dictionary defines malaise and with 72% of people in a recent New York Times poll feeling...
Bed-Stuy Little League predicts exciting season — The first warm day of spring last week brought out droves of people to Von King Park’s playgrounds, benches...
by Stephen Lendman Five weeks after Japan’s disaster, reports suggest worse, not improved conditions. It portends serious regional and global trouble ahead, besides what’s already...
By Matt Taibbi Rollingstone.com Financial crooks brought down world’s economy — but the Feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them Nobody goes...
New Yorkers voiced opposition to a possible Wal-Mart entry into the NY market at yet another hearing, this one held by the Bloomberg administration. The hearing...
Gala to Honor Sidney Poitier, Ntozake Shange, Ruby Dee, Alicia Keys, Mayor David Dinkins, and more. Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre (NFT) will celebrate its...
NYPL will honor one of its most legendary patrons with exhibitions at libraries he frequented, along with programming and book...
By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former chattel slaves were promised 40 acres...
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,...
