Brooklyn’s Ancestral African Presenceis at Home on Harriet Tubman Blvd: From Africa to Brooklyn: Cultural Museum of African Art: Eric Edwards Collection Opens in Bed Stuy...
by Bernice Elizabeth Green Last Thursday night (Feb. 23), Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso honored Black History Month with a stellar opening night reception for the...
On Saturday, October 22, Restoration Plaza was the site of the groundbreaking for The Cultural Museum of African Art – The Eric Edwards Collection (CMAAEEC).Some speakers...
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...