by New York State Assembly Member Stefani L. Zinerman (District 56), Bedford Stuyvesant | Crown Heights The ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation has called for a “new-and-improved” America...
By Fern Gillespie “The Hate U Give,” a young adult novel by Angie Thomas that tells the story of a Black teen who witnesses a police...
Framework, successful in Boston, now being applied to New York, Virginia “We are advocating for an approach to address racism in health care by enlisting the...
By Candace McDuffie,www.theroot.comEvery detail about how police delayed action from stopping a mass shooter in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 is more gut-wrenching than the last....
On Saturday, May 14 at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo’s historic Black community of Kingsley, a white supremacist terrorist brutally shot and killed 10 African American...
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...