By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeNine NYPD bullets were fired. Gregory Delpeche, 49, an innocent bystander sitting on an L train subway car on his way to work at...
By Mary Alice MillerEvery now and then Gov. Hochul seems to forget who helped her get her slim margin of victory in her first full term...
BK BOROUGH PRESIDENT ANTONIO REYNOSO’S2023 STATE OF THE BOROUGH ADDRESS, MESSAGEPromises Continued Strategic Focus on Building “Lifeboats for the Neighborhoods” Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso —...
By OTP Staff We’re at the beginning of the flu season and the NYC Department of Health recommends that most people over the age of six...
“When we got to the hospital the first thing was to see patients. Some of them were crying and screaming. We were working since then, nonstop,”...
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...