By Christopher GriffithThe African American Clergy and Elected Officials organization held its first monthly meeting after the summer break under a tent in the spacious backyard...
The event was attended by activists and community members to honor seminal Black Power activist, Pan Africanist and civil rights leader in the 1960’s.
Basir MchawiMinister Clemson Brown was born in the backwoods of South Carolina during one of the worst periods of Jim Crow and racial segregation. Many would...
It doesn’t matter to Selma Jackson that a recent study by the New York City Department for the Aging said 29 percent of young New Yorkers...
by Fern Gillespie Sen. Raphael G. Warnock’s win in the Georgia runoff turned Georgia from a red to purple state with two Democrat senators. His victory...
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...