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...
Remembering Elsie Richardson … Our Time Press launches their March 9 – 30 Womens History Month Phenomenal Women series this...
Legislation for Establishment of African Burial Ground Museum and Education Center Reintroduced by Bernice Elizabeth Green Congressman Dan Goldman (D-10)...
– by Bernice Elizabeth Green The Flatbush African Burial Ground Coalition is a Black-led multiracial coalition of local residents, activists,...
By Suzanne SpellenThe day after graduation, he was appointed the assistant engineer for the construction of the Albany and Greenbush...
Mrs. Ollie McClean, the beloved community activist, and teacher who “educated young minds for more than 30 years” and encouraged...
A Profile in Black History by Suzanne SpellenWe shouldn’t have to wait for Black History Month to highlight important men...
by Fern Gillespie What would Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History Month and founder of the Association...
Farrell Evans, history.com During the late 1870s and early 1880s, as many as 40,000 African Americans migrated from the South...