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Our Time Press Remembers… Hattie Carthan and Herbert Von King

This April Earth Month and on the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day, next Friday,...
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Fighting Deed Theft, Preserving Legacy

    The meeting held last Saturday at Interfaith Medical Center, about reporting on the deed...
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Barneys And Macy’s Investigated For Allegedly Treating Black Customers Like Criminals

Erin Fuchs Businessinsider.com New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is investigating allegations that Barneys and Macy’s...
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Citywide African Burial Grounds Gain Recognition

East New York Signs Unveiled; Harlem site plaques approved by City…and More! Can you imagine...
City Politics

Thomas Sankara And The Assassination Of Africa’s Memory

By Dr. Chika A. Ezeanya Thomas Sankara was Burkina Faso’s president from August 1983 until...
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Descendants of Enslaved Africans Being Forced Off Their Land on Sapelo Island Due to Soaring Tax Hikes

The Gullah-Geechee community off the coast of southern Georgia is appealing tax hikes which...

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Parents Notebook

Children Learn What They Live – Teaching Afrocentric Values On The Home Front

By: Aminisha Black The major cultural difference  between  Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism is “we” vs. “I”. ...
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Treasured Reminders of Our African-American Past

Evidence of lost and forgotten chapters in America and world history merged in the...
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A Brief History Africans in the Americas

Long time readers of Our Time Press will instantly recognize the figures below from...
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NAACP Raises Alarm Over Growing Cases of AIDS in African-American Communities: Poverty, Lack of Health Care Causes Disproportionate Rate Amongst African-Americans

Washington- In observance of World AIDS Day, December 1st, the NAACP stands united in...
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Response to a Reader

To the Editor: I love the Bedford-Stuyvesant community. My family and I are newcomers and...
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Asthma Self-Help for African-Americans

Asthma in the African-American child may be caused by things other than what is...
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View From Here: The Freedom Party – Waking Giant

"Say it loud! I'm Black and I'm Proud!" When we entered the Siloam Presbyterian...
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FREEDOM PARTY IGNITES MOVEMENT

African-American Issues Brings Together Hundreds at Convention Freedom Party Hosts First Statewide Convention Several hundred from...
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Health & Wellness

Addressing Teen Violence-Related Mental Health

By Mary Alice Miller A shooting happened at a sweet sixteen party this past December....
Community News

Gun violence takes Targets Youth Community Calls for Investment and Mental Health Help

By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large "She's gone, and I can't ever see her again,” cried Lianna Charles-Moore,...
Interview

Beverly Tillery: Rebuilding Grassroots Activism at Brooklyn Movement Center

Fern Gillespie For Beverly Tillery, Interim Executive Director of Brooklyn Movement Center, the origin of...
Book Review

Book Review: The Work of James E. Cherry

Reviewed by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneBetween Chance and Mercy: PoemsEdge of the Wind: A...