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 SANDRA ESCALLÓNTELEMUNDO 47www.nbcnewyork.comNew Yorkers who make minimum wage are set to get their first pay bump in 5 years. Andrew Siff reports.The new year is...
February brought record-setting cold temperatures last week, as low as 4 degrees. Combined with life-threatening wind chill, outdoor temperatures reached as low as minus 15 degrees....
The housing boom in Brooklyn continues to explode and elderly Black homeowners are frequently being preyed upon by unscrupulous real estate buyers. Cease and desist zones...
An Interview with Dr. Christopher Boxe Bernice Elizabeth Green: Your view on “facts versus opinion.” Why is it important to pay more attention to the information...
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...