Coach Frances’ Appeal Letter :The Jackie Robinson Tennis community in Bed-Stuy has grown tremendously, partly due to the community’s passion, love, and commitment to the game....
By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeIn a city where a 13-year-old is stabbed and killed on an MTA bus, by a 14-year-old, the horrific news leaves New Yorkers aghast.Unfortunately,...
Youth in America: Despair, Violence, or Positive Action By Fern GillespieBlack children in New York are killing themselves. According to the CDC, suicide is the second...
We have heard “We Shall Overcome” in many accents, and now we hear the words “Million Man March” from the African Diaspora, being taken up by...
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...