From These Roots: Two Women, Shared Missions Carolyn Butts, founder of Reel Sisters, contacted Our Time Press early last week to make sure we were keeping...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeApril’s International Black Women’s History Month designation has been quietly and proudly existing since its invention in Atlanta in 2016. “If they don’t give...
Interwove Art with Activism in her Narrative Quilts Faith Ringgold, 93, the beloved and pioneering quilter, author, and multimedia artist, passed at her home in Englewood,...
By Fern GillespieThe theme for Earth Month 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics.” For Qiana Mickie, Executive Director, of NYC Mayor’s Office of Urban Agriculture, “Planet vs....
View From HereDavid Mark GreavesHere we are trapped in America’s history of Europeans bringing to the continent an innate belief in White supremacy, the genocide of...
By Nita Bhallawww.context.news What’s the context?After 12 months of conflict in Sudan, five million people face the risk of famine in one of the world’s most...
Reprint from Our Time Press,March, 1996From the PublisherThe mother buried with her child in the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan looks up to us out...
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...
