A Day of Speeches to Spark a Life of Change By Essence WileyHoward University News ServiceThousands crowded at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday in honor of...
by David W. Matthews,Bedford-Stuyvesant resident It was already very warm in Bed-Stuy, Saturday, August 24, at 4:00 AM as dozens of soon-to-be marchers associated with Age...
60 years since the 1963 March on Washington, Economic Justice remains a dream -By Charlene CrowellWhile the 1963 March on Washington brought more than 200,000 Americans...
Historical moments of the 1960s revolved around the Civil Rights efforts for social justice, jobs, and freedom from oppression. The soundtrack of those years was mixed...
By History.com EditorsThe March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln...
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...