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We’ve Come This Far by Faith: Brooklyn’s Black Churches

Brooklyn’s African American Protestant denominations were born of discrimination and a desire for self-expression and self-worth. Their contributions to our...
Black History2 weeks ago

Maurice Bishop & Thomas Sankara

By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsIn the 1980’s two young Black heads of state, just as they were getting started in...
Black History3 weeks ago

Brooklyn Savvy Explores African-American Genealogy and Racial Identity

by Toni WilliamsIn the latest episode of Brooklyn Savvy, host Toni Williams and an insightful panel delve into the intricacies...
Black History3 months ago

Dr. Raymond Codrington: The 1866 Freedman’s Torchlight Newspaper was a Beacon for Brooklyn’s Weeksville Community

By Fern GillespieWhen Dr. Raymond Codrington, President and CEO of Weeksville Heritage Center, was invited by Trinity College to view...
Black History4 months ago

Shirley and Kamala

Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first woman Vice President will go down in the history books as the first...
Black History5 months ago

New York Public Library Celebrates 100th Birthday of James Baldwin Across Library System

NYPL will honor one of its most legendary patrons with exhibitions at libraries he frequented, along with programming and book...
Black History6 months ago

40 Acres Given to 1200 Former Chattel Slaves, Then Taken Away

By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former chattel slaves were promised 40 acres...
Black History6 months ago

Remembering D-Day: Honoring the Black, Buried, Missing at Normandy American Cemetery

By Col. (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings,U.S. ArmySpecial to the AFRO“All last night, guns shook on the ground on which I...