By Amadi AjamuThe 34th annual May 19th Malcolm X Birthday Black Power rally and march gathered in front of the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office...
Thank you and Farewell, Matriarch Viola Plummer! By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeOn Saturday, January 27, 2024, It was like a Who’s Who of grassroots activists and community organizations...
New York – While Malcolm X would have turned ninety-eight years old this approaching May 19th, if not for the bullets of assassins, his honest critic...
Stop the Killing: Message from the Grassroots. On September 26, 2022, we received a message from a friend, LT, accompanied by a short video of “a...
Scottsboro Boys Minstrel Show on Broadway Closes by Amadi Ajamu The final performances of the Scottsboro Boys Broadway production will be held on December 12, 2010. ...
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...