This April Earth Month and on the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day, next Friday, April 29, Our Time Press salutes Hattie Carthan (1901 –1984) and Herbert...
By Marlon Rice I have called 192 Greene Avenue home for 31 years. I know the neighborhood as intimately as one knows their childhood neighborhood, and...
On Friday, May 19th 2017 hundreds of Brooklyn community members will celebrate legacy and dance the night away at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple for Magnolia Tree...
Forty-five years ago Hattie Carthan, Bedford Stuyvesant resident and among the nation’s first African American community-based ecology activist, founded Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford Stuyvesant.,...
Borough’s Early Progenitors of Village Matters Saturday, January 28 marks the 40th Anniversary of an historic benefit event for two organizations founded by African-Americans in Brooklyn. On...
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...