By Victoria Horsford GOOD NEWS On December 19th, President Barack Obama grants clemency to 231 federal inmates, he issued 78 pardons and commuted the sentences of...
– Climate Nexus Citing the danger that climate change poses to the oceans, President Obama will establish the largest marine reserve in the world today, protecting nearly 600,000...
By Devyn Spence Benson, for the Huffington Post On Sunday, President Barack Obama will be the first U.S. President to set foot on Cuban soil since 1928....
By Mary Alice Miller It began two years ago, when the congregation of New Life Tabernacle sought to watch the historic election returns that culminated with...
What a strange history lesson Henry Louis Gates gives in an April 23 New York Times Op Ed. He begins “Thanks to an unlikely confluence of...
Trump inauguration. Time of turmoil, testing resolve By Nayaba ArindeEditor at Large“We can’t slow up and have our dignity and...
New York’s Seventeenth-Century African Burial Ground in History by Christopher Paul Moore New York’s African Burial Ground is the nation’s...
There are few places that inspire as much passion as the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan.It is more than...
Fern GillespieThe origin story of WBLS-FM is part of radio folklore. Its chief storyteller is Frankie Crocker, the legendary radio...
Brooklyn’s African American Protestant denominations were born of discrimination and a desire for self-expression and self-worth. Their contributions to our...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsIn the 1980’s two young Black heads of state, just as they were getting started in...
by Toni WilliamsIn the latest episode of Brooklyn Savvy, host Toni Williams and an insightful panel delve into the intricacies...
By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was invited by Trinity College to view...