As Nation’s Week-Long (Apr 11-17) Awareness Initiative Begins Nation-wide initiatives to attract attention to Black maternity health matters begin today in observance of Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW),...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeIt is Black Maternal Health Week.Mamas gather here.The joy, the trials, the innovation, the sheer magic of it all. Carrying and raising the babies...
President: “Black Women in U.S. Three Times More Likely to Experience Pregnancy-Related Complications” – Our Time Press’ April-May series on Reproductive Health and Choice to Begin...
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...