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    Better Days Ahead: Brooklyn’s Young Guns Grow Up Fast as Nets Turn Heads

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    Mets and Yankees Seek Major Upgrades as MLB Winter Meetings Begin

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    Ethiopians Added to the “Get out of America” List

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    Anti-Black Words from Trump as ICE & TPS Cancelations Impact the African Community

    WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 6: (L-R) Alexei Laushkin, Rev. Patrick Mahoney and Katie Mahoney hold a banner that reads "Protect the Haitian Community!" on the House East Front Steps at the U.S. Capitol Building on March 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. The three were on Capitol Hill with the Christian Defense Coalition to demonstrate against the Trump administration's plan to revoke Temporary Protected Status for the Haitian community. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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    They Refused to be Silenced: “The Queen of Sugar Hill” and “With Love from Harlem”

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    Justice for Garvey

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    Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

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    Faith, Politics, and the Illusion of Post-Racial America

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    Enduring Legacies Realized and Respected

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    “When We Trouble the Waters…”

    "Something in the Water" by Phyllis R. Dixon - Review by Dr. Brenda M. Greene Phyllis Dixon’s novel, Something in the Water (Kensington, 2025), based...
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    Across the Diaspora and Beyond, Cultures of Families Keep America Live

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    Joyful Noise in Downtown Brooklyn: The ‘We Outside’ Tour Takes Over the Paramount

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    This past Thanksgiving, Pojanee “PJ” Fleury, Our Time Press Podcast Producer and Field Reporter, Passed. In her honor we present her “Brooklyn Block Party” series from this past summer. Our Time Press wishes to express our deepest condolences to her family and friends.

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    Block Party on Quincy Street

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    Crossing Paths with Assata Shakur

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    More Than a Moment, A Movement

    Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as the architect of the historic August...
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    “History Must Look His Way”

    The documentary Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, directed by Yemi Bamiro (white sneakers) and produced by Joan Boateng (orange blouse) of Misfit Entertainment, with Lizzie Gillett, Ian Bonhote, and Andrew Calof made its North American debut, last Thursday, Nov. 13 during the DOC NYC 2025 Festival for Documentaries presented at the SVA Theater in Manhattan. Executive producers include (in photo, at right) Brathwaite's son, Kwame S. Brathwaite and daughter in-law Robynn Brathwaite, who are featured in the film with Sikolo Brathwaite (Kwame's wife, unpictured) other family members
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    Another Look at Bed-Stuy’s Watson Mere

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    Kofi Osei Williams: Creating an African Diaspora Legacy for Young Dancers and Drummers

    Fern GillespieBrooklyn youth creatively learn the African Diaspora legacy dance and drum through Asase...
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    Black Brooklyn Influencers

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    Media Icon and Pioneer Thomas H. Watkins –Daily Challenge publisher, is remembered and honored

    Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn-raised Thomas Henry Watkins, founder, owner, and publisher of the New York Daily...
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    All in the Powell Family

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    Brooklyn Org’s Dr. Jocelynne Rainey

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    Takeaways from the second general election debate in the NYC mayoral race

    Excerpts from Story by David Wright,Gloria Pazmino, CNN This time, the gloves came off.Democrat Zohran Mamdani clashed with independent Andrew Cuomo from the first moments of Wednesday’s second and final general election debate for New York City mayor. Cuomo called Mamdani divisive and said he...
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    “I’m With Tish”

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    Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

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    Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival announces Fall 2025 lineup starting on October 8!

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    Reel Sisters & BAM Honor Trailblazing Documentary Filmmaker Samantha Knowles (Harlem Ice Director)

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    Increasing Suicide Among Black Youth: Risk vs Rate

    By Mary Alice MillerFor the past few years, the alarm has been sounding all across the country: suicide among Black youth is increasing. The...
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    “From the Office to the Fight: Angelica Barker, OBH Employee and Survivor”

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    Building a Sensory Safe Haven for Children with Special Needs and their Families

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    From Entrepreneurship to Community Organizing

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    Across the Diaspora and Beyond, Cultures of Families Keep America Live

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