We join Our Time Press and Black Star News in sharing a statement from the Angaza Family on the passing of our cherished Queen Maitefa Angaza...
From These Roots: Two Women, Shared Missions Carolyn Butts, founder of Reel Sisters, contacted Our Time Press early last week to make sure we were keeping...
A Few Proud African Voices in the Long Song by Maitefa Angaza African Voices (AV) has been celebrating a happy and active 30th anniversary since last...
The Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, for 25 years, under the guidance of its founder, Carolyn Butts, has presented compelling films by and about...
By Fern Gillespie Photos: Barry L. Mason For over 20 years, Bernice Green traveled around the US and Europe as the first Black publicist at CBS...
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...