by Roslyn E. Bacon By the age of twenty-three, his youngest assailant had learned the lesson of hate. Why hadn’t he learned it by age forty-nine? ...
Receives Key Endorsement From Councilman Charles Barron Stanley Kinard, an educator who has served as Founder and long-time Executive Director of the Carter C. Woodson Cultural...
By Freddie Hamilton “Bridge Street students today, America’s leaders tomorrow”, says Rev. David B. Cousin, Sr., Pastor of Bridge Street AWME Church. This gives a glimpse...
By Aminisha Black Parenting is a Balancing Act Effective parenting in this culture is a matter of fulfilling physiological needs, nurturing emotional and social stability and...
How do you keep yourself looking so fabulous? At age 73, Essence Magazine featured you in their annual issue of elderly beauties. I only eat healthful...
by Radley Balko In Washington, D.C., a 27-year old quadriplegic is sentenced to ten days in jail for marijuana possession, where he dies under suspicious circumstances....
Sergeant Pablo Andr‚s Calder¢n was recently killed in Iraq, when a roadside insurgent makeshift bomb exploded near the ruined Sunni City of Fallujah. Calderon, a lifelong...
New York, NY, June 27, 2025 – The Abolition Commemoration Day Committee is presenting its fourth Abolition Commemoration Day in...
NEW ORLEANS – Earlier this month, Dillard University, in partnership with the City of New Orleans and University Medical Center...
by NZINGHAJune is the month where we celebrate Father’s Day. It’s the day we honor men who embody the task...
The “Batman and Robin” of The Black Arts Movement by Cinque BrathMy father was not recognized for his unique parenting...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large“What would Malcolm X do?”Hundreds of New Yorkers asked as they came out to honor Malcolm X, who...
“Mothers are the peace on Earth that make the world go round. The love they give is always of hope...
By Da’Nelle Mason, at Age 9 It’s not everyday that a person gets to go back into the past. On...
-Bernice Elizabeth Green In late winter 1998, artist-photographer Barry L. Mason, his daughter, Da’Nelle Mason and I attended an Underground...
