by Nehemi’EL Ibrihim-SimmsTwo things characterize the American holiday: intense commercialization and the reinforcement of European cultural hegemony. These holidays, gilded and packaged in cheap moral drapery,...
Gone are the days when you could put the carcass of a dead bird on the table and have everybody oh and ah at the sight...
By Abigail McGrath, Renaissance House Thanksgiving is coming up and I am going to do the best I can to not burst anyone’s bubble about the...
By Selma Jackson Growing up in the Bronx, my parents, James and Anna McNeely made every effort to make holidays special for their five daughters. I...
We met Rick Baker at Metropolitan College of New York’s 50th Anniversary gala held October 23rd at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. He received the coveted...
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...