By Mary Alice Miller This year’s end of term Supreme Court decisions are proof that it is important to vote and vote intelligently. Trump’s appointments to...
By Charlene CrowellEach spring, many aspiring students and their families begin receiving college acceptance letters and offers of financial aid packages. This year’s college decisions will...
Attendees at this year’s International African Arts Festival shared their concerns about the Supreme Court decision on Affirmative Action with Our Time Press last weekend. By...
By Mary Alice MillerIn a stunning rebuke to a novel Republican interpretation of the U.S. Constitution’s enumeration of state powers regarding federal elections, this week the...
By David Mark Greaves After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, we naively rhapsodized how the Democrats would benefit, hold both houses of congress, codify...
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...