By Stephen Witt In the wake of last week’s double homicide in Fort Greene Park, coupled with the federal court ruling that the Bloomberg Administration’s stop-and-frisk...
By Stephen Witt The excitement of invention and learning new concepts filled the P.S. 5 Dr. Ronald McNair Elementary School last Saturday as the Summer Engineering...
By Aissatou Diallo By looking at the workers behind the counter at the McDonald’s on Linden Boulevard on a regular Sunday afternoon, one may think that...
by Sheldon Richman Two recent law-enforcement decisions illustrate yet again that when government sets out to solve a problem it created, things get much worse. This...
Screenings: Five on the Black Hand Side at 2p; The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 at 7p. As part of an ongoing effort to raise funds for...
by Segun ShabakaAssata Shakur’s passing last week was a bittersweet moment in that we lost a Black freedom fighter who...
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as the architect of the historic August 28,1963 March on Washington for Jobs...
Each year, the nation and the world pause to remember the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and...
Tracing Black Families Back to Slavery in Brooklyn Fern GillespieSlavery in New York City began 400 years ago in 1626...
Remembering Helene Nomsa Brath By Cinque BrathIn our community, we often celebrate the louder voices—the ones who grab the microphone,...
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...