By Philip Jackson, Executive Director of the Black Star Project To the Chicago Education Committee and New CEO Selection Committee: Numerous parents and organizations have asked...
By Renee Collymore One day after the announcement of the resignation of now-former School’s Chancellor Cathie Black and celebrating the incoming Chancellor Dennis Walcott many are...
Local elected officials hailed Mayor Bloomberg’s pick of a black schools chancellor with a history of being involved with public schools but remain skeptical that the...
Lays Out Strong Budget Plan, Stands up for Basic Human Services In response to the “unbalanced” budget plan proposed by the Republican leadership, President Obama laid...
Kevin Gillespie stood in the drizzle outside the Tabernacle Church of God Day care Center with his three young children and contemplated his family’s future. “Both...
77th Precinct covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights Gunshot wound A 15-year-old boy was shot in the right thigh on April 8, police said. The...
The Consumer Protection Act and the Durbin Amendment, passed by both Houses of Congress and signed into law by President Obama last year, changes how much...
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,...
