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Black History4 weeks 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 History2 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 History3 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 History4 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 History4 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...
Black History5 months ago

An Homage to Malcolm X

Eulogy delivered by Ossie Davisat the funeral of Malcolm XFaith Temple Church of GodFebruary 27, 1965“Here – at this final...
Black History5 months ago

More Black People &More African Assistance Needed!

By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change, and maybe Brooklyn can lead the way. The population in NYC who...
Black History5 months ago

The Need for a “Pro African Policy and Purpose” from our Community & Elected Officials

By Jeffery Kazembe BattsPolicy and purpose can change. “Now is the time” Rev. Jesse Jackson famously said to mobilize the...