Fern GillespieIn 1969, when the Black Arts Movement was emerging, educator-activist Jitu Weusi launched an Afro-centric cultural economic renaissance in Bedford Stuyvesant. It was the East....
Commenting on the reports of China’s dominance in world education and New York State rankings that place the New York City schools at the bottom of...
by Amadi Ajamu The fight against Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor-designee Cathie Black will be waged in the streets and in the courts. Freedom Party leaders laid...
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...