The Harry Belafonte Artist and Activist Achievement Award, inaugurated by RestorationArt, will be launched this season, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Indira Etwaroo, Executive...
NEW YORK—The New York Public Library and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the library has decided to adopt a new name for Harlem’s 115th...
By Bernice Elizabeth Green In Nelson Mandela’s first public appearance in the United States in June 1990, he stopped in Bedford-Stuyvesant at Boys & Girls H.S....
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Whereas, the faculty of Medgar Evers College has attempted unsuccessfully to engage the administration (Office of the President and Provost) into collegial...
Dr. and Mrs. Pollard, let me start off by expressing my sincere sense of gratitude and privilege in sharing this evening with you, the alumni, elected...
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...