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Black Voting Rights Today – Unprotected by the Federal Government

Where do we go from here? Esmeralda Simmons In Spring 2026, the United States Supreme Court...
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The Jacksonian Impact

New Yorkers pay tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson - Protest Power and Racial Resilience,...
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Community News

Grassroots to Global

Thousands join The Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network and Civil Rights Leaders on...
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Abigail McGrath

A Storyteller Raised by Harlem Renaissance Legends Who Lived a Novel Life By Fern GillespieThere...
U.S. Politics

The Real Dangers of Project 2025 for Black People

By Mary Alice MillerWhen Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he had no...
Community News

Protecting Our Community from Project 2025: Concrete Actions for the Future

by New York State Assembly Member Stefani L. Zinerman (District 56), Bedford Stuyvesant |...
Interview

Dennis L. Powell: “Vote in Honor of Those Who Could Not”

On the Saturday before the Sunday (July 21) announcement of President Biden’s decision to...
Black History

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Environment

by Wildtomorrow.orgEcology and the environment aren’t the first things that we think of when...
Black History

Miss LeCount & Mr. Catto

Philadelphia Residents Seek Monuments to Giants in the City’s Black History, Unknown to the...
Black History

Power Moves: Saving Sacred Places,Rediscovering Lost Values

Text and Photos by Bernice Elizabeth Green In May 2018, Rev. Taharka W. Robinson and...
Black History

National Trust Grants $4m in Grants to Preserve 35 Historic Black Churches across the U.S., including Brooklyn’s Varick Memorial and Harlem’s Mother AME Zion

For more than four centuries, the Black church, America’s foremost institution epitomizing steadfastness, has...
Black History

Reflections of a 1960’s Demonstrator

First Person by Hazel StewartMy mother was slightly to the right of John Birch....
News around the Web

Fannie Lou Hamer: The Right to Vote –What it Took to Get Here

1917-1977 Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer rose from humble beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to become...
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Docu-Series Breathes Life into Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases, New Meaning to Cry “No Justice, No Peace”

Beverly Terry Last week, Investigation Discovery, partnering with the NAACP, hosted the premiere of  their...
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Health & Wellness

“In the Mix: Veggie Power” by Dr. Gerry Baker

(A Story of Community, Nutrition, and Inclusion for Children of All Ages)  - By Yvette Moore Lessons...
Events

One Brooklyn Health to Host Free Family Health Fair at Interfaith Campus 

BROOKLYN, NY — One Brooklyn Health (OBH) invites Brooklyn residents to attend the OBH Interfaith Campus Family Health...
Black History

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Occasion: Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was asked to give an address regarding the...
Black History

Scholars Angela Y. Davis and Jelani Cobb Gift Wisdom and Inspire Intergenerational Reflections at BPL’s Kahn Humanities Event

In a milestone recognition of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United...