By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeLast week at City Hall, violence interrupters like East New York’s Man Up Inc. and Queens Life Camp welcomed June 2024 Gun Violence Awareness...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeYou know summer is here when the roar of dirt bikes tear up and down the block; with Biggie, Pop Smoke, Burna Boy, Frankie...
Netflix Good Times reboot backlash By Nayaba ArindeEditor at LargeArmchair activism has a new meaning.Television viewers are being encouraged by Dr. James McIntosh and Betty Dopson’s...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeThe recent rash of teenage stabbings and shootings from Brooklyn to the Bronx has the community, activists, violence interrupter advocates, and city officials concerned...
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeFinding a home to rent can be something of a physical and emotional obstacle course. Community-minded landlords have a business ethic that supports local...
by Segun ShabakaAssata Shakur’s passing last week was a bittersweet moment in that we lost a Black freedom fighter who...
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as the architect of the historic August 28,1963 March on Washington for Jobs...
Each year, the nation and the world pause to remember the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and...
Tracing Black Families Back to Slavery in Brooklyn Fern GillespieSlavery in New York City began 400 years ago in 1626...
Remembering Helene Nomsa Brath By Cinque BrathIn our community, we often celebrate the louder voices—the ones who grab the microphone,...
New York, NY, June 27, 2025 – The Abolition Commemoration Day Committee is presenting its fourth Abolition Commemoration Day in...
NEW ORLEANS – Earlier this month, Dillard University, in partnership with the City of New Orleans and University Medical Center...
by NZINGHAJune is the month where we celebrate Father’s Day. It’s the day we honor men who embody the task...