By Mary Alice Miller In the end, it was a bigger blowout than the 40% poll projections predicted: Bill de Blasio was elected the next Mayor...
By Mary Alice Miller Retired police officer Michael Greys made public his intent to run for mayor on the Freedom Party line. The announcement, during which...
–Victims of Gun Violence Urge Mayor Bloomberg to Condemn Retailer for Reversing Decision to Stop Selling Rifles, Shotguns– So Wal-Mart, the #1 seller of firearms in...
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...