By Nayaba ArindeEditor at LargeNew York City’s budget negotiations with City Hall’s 51 council members and Mayor Eric Adams concluded with an on-time $112.4 billion budget....
June 28, 2024 —“Brooklyn, Queens, and New York Public libraries are thrilled that the budget agreement includes the full restoration of funding for public libraries –...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor -at-LargeMay is Mental Health Month. July is Black or ‘Minority’ Mental Health Month.May 5 – 11, is Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week.All are...
New York City’s largest public celebration in honor of iconic civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. returned to BAM for the 38th year. This...
As the biggest city in America, New York City has a big share of critical needs, including the need for an appropriate big budget to keep...
By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was invited by Trinity College to view...
Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first woman Vice President will go down in the history books as the first...
NYPL will honor one of its most legendary patrons with exhibitions at libraries he frequented, along with programming and book...
By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former chattel slaves were promised 40 acres...
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...