By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeThe Electoral College. This is always a sticky and controversial conversation.“Free and fair elections are the foundation of our democracy, but not all votes...
Netflix Good Times reboot backlash By Nayaba ArindeEditor at LargeArmchair activism has a new meaning.Television viewers are being encouraged by Dr. James McIntosh and Betty Dopson’s...
by Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large On the day after the January 15th death of Viola Plummer, friends and family gathered at her Sista’s Place jazz and community venue...
Fern GillespieMayor Eric Adams has a vision for a “City of Yes” for New York City. His plan includes “modernizing” New York City’s zoning regulations to...
Open to the public: Sat, Jan. 6th, 2024 Medgar Evers College from 1 pm-4 pm By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeNew Year resolutions notwithstanding, there is a community call...
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...