The Patricia F. Robinson Music Studio on Monroe Street – a steadfast pillar in Brooklyn’s music community — is celebrating nearly a century of developing musicians...
by Bernice Elizabeth GreenThe Billie Holiday Theatre’s revival of two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage’s “Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine,” is so good that even the...
By Peter M. WilliamsNABJ Black News & ViewsAs we come upon the second celebration of Juneteenth as a national holiday, I question why this year’s legislation...
June 19, 1865 is the date that slaves in Texas and other parts of the south learned about their freedom, which happened nearly two years after...
Ada Smothers, McIntosh Neighborhood Association Garden, Elmhurst, Queens The garden was founded in 1978 by the neighbors in the McIntosh Neighborhood Association. This was an empty...
By Lisa DurdenOnce hailed as the uncensored voice of gossip, her recent documentary series, “Where Is Wendy Williams,” has left audiences in shock and scrutiny when...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeBrooklynites are wrestling with a housing dilemma. Not just the severe lack of affordable housing, and the growing ‘unhoused’ population, but also “ethnic cleansing,”...
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...
