As reported last week, New York City’s resources are straining under the influx of 100,000 asylum-seekers arriving in NYC since last Spring; the City Shelter population...
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams released the following statement after he, New York State Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs, and ‘Homeless Hero’ and advocate...
Text and photos by Bernice Elizabeth Green While the drama in Manhattan’s Watson Hotel – between refugee adult men who refused to move, the media and...
Accept Migrants and Help the Homeless Council Member Chi Ossé(CD36)The Bed Stuy District has seen an increase in migrants and asylum seekers. I visited one of...
Brooklyn’s African American Protestant denominations were born of discrimination and a desire for self-expression and self-worth. Their contributions to our...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsIn the 1980’s two young Black heads of state, just as they were getting started in...
by Toni WilliamsIn the latest episode of Brooklyn Savvy, host Toni Williams and an insightful panel delve into the intricacies...
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...