By Fern GillespieIt was 1971, the height of the Black Arts Movement, and the progressive voices of Black writers, poets, playwrights, actors, musicians, scholars and artists...
By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was invited by Trinity College to view a rare 1866 first edition of...
By Fern GillespieThere’s been a lot of messaging about the irony of Vice President Kamala Harris, California’s veteran prosecutor, district attorney, and attorney general, running against...
By Fern GillespieThe 2024 Democratic National Convention was the third time that veteran political, public affairs and business consultant Celeste Morris had attended the presidential convention....
Fern GillespieBrooklyn Savvy defines Toni Yuille Williams. It’s not only the name of her popular TV talk show on NYClife channel 25, Brooklyn Savvy is how...
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...