LEGIT, a five-year-old program of the Osborne Association, is an alternative-to-incarceration program which first-time offender teens are mandated by the court or probation, to attend. Sharon...
Sharon Content is a former Wall Street analyst for Solomon Brothers, and LeeRoy Jordan, Jr. is a Qualified Health Professional, who has been with Osborne Associates...
Million Youth March High School Representative “There is an old Negro proverb: It takes a Village to Raise a Child. Well, we are the Village. We...
Over twenty-five years ago, Marvin Gaye, commenting on the direction of the country said, “It makes you want to hollar and throw up both your hands.” ...
OTP: The recent primary election only had about 15% of the electorate coming out. What’s going on and how can we change it? Charles Barron: Number...
OTP: What is the Universal Nubian Association. Brother Kazembe: The Universal Nubian Association is a loose network of Pan-Africanists and African Nationalists. Young adults based mostly...
We appear to be in a golden age of African-American small business development. The number of black businesses is rising sharply-more than 46% in the late...
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...
