by Bernice Elizabeth GreenAt her Tuesday debate with former President Donald Trump at Philadelphia’s National Constitutional Center, Vice President Kamala Harris talked about – in a...
Reprint from November 4, 2010To the Editor:I love the Bedford-Stuyvesant community. My family and I are newcomers and would like for our local politicians to stop...
By Bernice Elizabeth GreenVickie and Freedom, a couple in their early 60’s, just celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary on May 4th.And the best gift they could...
Speaker Carl Heastie and Assemblymember Stefani Zinerman, last Friday, announced $6 million in funding for the Bedford Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps (BSVAC) facility, a new multi-service...
The Brooklyn NAACP celebrated 100 years of “advancing the cause of Civil Rights & Social Justice” at an evening gala in Downtown Brooklyn Thursday, December 15,...
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...