Dr. Brenda M. Greene Maura Cheeks’s novel, Acts of Forgiveness (Ballantine, 2024) is very timely as we consider reparations for Blacks in this country. What will...
An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets Kwame Alexander’s anthology This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Little Brown and Company, 2020) features poems...
Although Kevin Powell’s poetry collection, Grocery Shopping with My Mother: Poems, (Soft Skull, 2022), begins and ends with a tribute to his mother, the collection is...
by Dr. Brenda M. Greene The persistence and resilience of Africans in America are documented in the novel Barracoon (Amistad, 2018) by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora...
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...