by Fern Gillespie It’s ironic that diva Sheryl Lee Ralph won a historic Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Emmy Award for her role as the...
-by Bernice Elizabeth Green There are many bests on Broadway we’ve been told, but it would be hard for the others to outplay August Wilson’s “The...
By Fern Gillespie The current Broadway production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Piano Lesson” is a family affair with roots in Black theatre. The...
THE 2016 ELECTIONS If my polling site in Central Harlem exemplified the Black voter turnout across America, then tomorrow will be less dystopian than it was...
James Earl Jones is Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway James Earl Jones sat onstage at the New York Times‘ TimesTalks program and told the audience: “I...
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...