First-in-the-Nation Program Provides Free Tuition to New Yorkers Making Less Than $125,000 Per Year at all SUNY and CUNY Two- and Four-Year Colleges Governor Andrew M....
Shawn Carrié and Isabelle Nastasia On Sunday, October 20, at 11:00 a.m., NYPD officers and CUNY security marched into the main academic center at CUNY City...
Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York (CUNY) was named after a slain civil rights hero and Black leader who spent his life...
2010 marks 40 years since the founding of Medgar Evers College in 1970. Under the leadership of Edison O. Jackson, the school has created nationally known...
By Fern GillespieHalle Bailey’s face was on the screen, swimming through the corals for mere seconds. That was all that...
By Timothy V. Johnsonpeoplesworld.orgEsther Cooper Jackson was part of an “astonishingly excellent cohort of Black women of an earlier generation,...
celebrates the anniversary of his Passing, this Saturday,August 27, in Great Barrington, Mass. W.E.B. Du Bois often wrote that he...
By History.com EditorsThe March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people...
In the 1970s, fresh off a Broadway Tony Award nomination for the musical “Raisin,” Ralph Carter, a Black teen from...
By Maitefa AngazaAt this time each year activists and advocates across the nation observe Black August. It was first organized...
Yaa Asantewaa Nzingha “If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your...
More than history is underfoot in Central Park where Seneca Village thrived from 1825 to 1853. For more than two...