Brooklyn’s Migrants – Community and Commerce in effect By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeWhen the recent inflow of migrants first arrived, there was a sense of welcoming with underlying...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change, and maybe Brooklyn can lead the way. The population in NYC who identify as Black or African is...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large“It is like they are creating a ‘poor versus the poorest situation,” AT Mitchell, founder and CEO of Brooklyn’s Man Up Inc., told Our...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeThere are at least two more months of frigid winter, and a common scene on New York City streets are “huddled masses”, resembling piles...
By Our Time Press StaffOur Time Press reached out to Jumaane Williams, New York City’s Public Advocate, for his insights on how the government and New...
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...