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...
On Saturday, October 22, Restoration Plaza was the site of the groundbreaking for The Cultural Museum of African Art – The Eric Edwards Collection (CMAAEEC).Some speakers...
An Inspiration for the “Woke” Generation By Fern GillespieAlmost 50 years later, Good Times (1974-1979) remains a cultural touchstone. The inspirational show about a Black family...
In the 1970s, fresh off a Broadway Tony Award nomination for the musical “Raisin,” Ralph Carter, a Black teen from Brooklyn became a television star on...
Brooklyn’s African American Protestant denominations were born of discrimination and a desire for self-expression and self-worth. Their contributions to our...
By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsIn the 1980’s two young Black heads of state, just as they were getting started in...
by Toni WilliamsIn the latest episode of Brooklyn Savvy, host Toni Williams and an insightful panel delve into the intricacies...
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...