By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeBrooklynites are wrestling with a housing dilemma. Not just the severe lack of affordable housing, and the growing ‘unhoused’ population, but also “ethnic cleansing,”...
The City manages its various day-to-day ongoing residency and lifestyles crises, but one is looming that’s about the size of a small city: finding relief, assistance,...
By Mary Alice MillerNew York State’s Fiscal Year 2024 $229 Billion budget has completed after a month of intense negotiations between Governor Hochul, the State Senate,...
By Akosua K. Albritton “Un-‘Fair’ and against the law!” This was the message of a rally of Crown Heights residents at the Bed-Stuy Restoration Plaza recently. ...
City tells families in Section 8 program to downsize apartments or pay more rent By Stephen Witt The sequester in Washington has forced the city’s Department...
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...