By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large Activists and New York elected officials are demanding that Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the Reparations Bill before the end-of-the-year deadline.“It’s a de facto...
All Photos by Christopher Griffith The Kings County Democratic County Committee and Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn hosted this year’s Brooklyn Democratic Party Gala attended by...
Slavery remained legal in New York until 1827. And even after that, it remained closely tied to the institution when it continued to exist in southern...
By Rev. Phyllis I CoachmanStanding outside at the press conference, in front of the African Burial Ground, with my posters demanding lineage-based reparations, I felt disappointed...
By Mary Alice MillerReparations for the harms inflicted upon enslaved persons under the United States chattel slavery system and their descendants is an idea whose time...
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...