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

    By Eddie CastroThe Brooklyn Nets heading into the 2025-26 campaign knew it was going to be another rebuilding year in hopes of better days ahead for the franchise. A team that doesn’t necessarily have much talent on the roster but have a few players...

    Winter Meetings 2025 2.0: Mets Bleed Talent, Yankees Go Silent, and New York Fans Demand Answers

    BRONX, NY - OCTOBER 02: Amed Rosario #14 of the New York Yankees defends during the American League Wild Card Game 3 against the Boston Red Sox October 2, 2025 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York. (Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

    Mets and Yankees Seek Major Upgrades as MLB Winter Meetings Begin

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: Cody Bellinger #35 of the New York Yankees hits a double against the Toronto Blue Jays during the sixth inning in game three of the American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium on October 07, 2025 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Ishika Samant/Getty Images)

    Eyes on Somalia

    By Jeffery Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbattsIn 2001, Black Hawk Down was a box-office movie sensation...

    American Empire Roars into 2026

    By Kazembe BattsIG: @kazbatts “No boots on the ground or bombs in the air, U.S....

    Ethiopians Added to the “Get out of America” List

    Zhang Yawei L, cultural counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia, presents a prize to a winner at an award ceremony of the Second Ethiopia Online Chinese Video Competition, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Dec. 11, 2025. The Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia on Thursday announced winners of the Second Ethiopia Online Chinese Video Competition at a ceremony held at the Ethiopian Technical and Vocational Training Institute in Addis Ababa. (Photo by Michael Tewelde/Xinhua via Getty Images)

    They Refused to be Silenced: “The Queen of Sugar Hill” and “With Love from Harlem”

    Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneThe Queen of Sugar Hill:A Novel of Hattie...

    Justice for Garvey

    Not only did I greatly admire Garvey, but his conviction also represented one of...

    Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

    What you need to know for now is that it was just like this....

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

    Everybody talks about how he’ll change race in America. Erase it or whatever. By...

    A Salute to Good Fathers and Other Men of Honor and Change

    Our Time At Home Congratulations to fine artist and professional photographer Barry L. Mason, a...

    Enduring Legacies Realized and Respected

    African Burial Ground Memorial Foundation Finalizes Philanthropic Partnership Agreement with U.S. National Park Service...

    Mamdani Says Crime Down, Community Says ‘It Ebbs and Flows.”

    BY Nayaba ArindeLast week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced that 2025 was the “safest year ever for gun violence with...

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

    "Divine Nine Sunday, December 14, transformed the Whitney Museum of American Art in...

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

    The We Outside Tour, led by three-time Grammy winner Tye Tribbett, alongside Transformation Worship...

    Other News

    High Horse: The Black Cowboy does what great documentaries should do…

    Executive produced by Jordan Peele, this three-part docuseries reclaims the Black cowboy’s rightful place...

    Million Man March: 30 Years Later

    Minister Henry Muhammad Reflects 30 Year Later By Mary Alice MillerAs the 30th anniversary of...

    Crossing Paths with Assata Shakur

    by Segun ShabakaAssata Shakur’s passing last week was a bittersweet moment in that we...

    More Than a Moment, A Movement

    Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as the architect of the historic August...

    “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

    Another Look at Bed-Stuy’s Watson Mere

    Artist & Urban Griot Makes the Connections That Matter …in Life and On Canvas...

    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...

    Barry Cooper, Founder of The B.R.O. Experience, is a Life Coach for Black Youth

    Fern GillespieBarry Cooper, known as “Coach Coop,” has inspired hundreds of young Black and...

    Black Brooklyn Influencers

    by Fern GillespieIn recognition of the New Year, Our Time Press reached out to...

    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...

    All in the Powell Family

    Wayne Powell has a lot to smile about. His daughter LaNice, right, and granddaughter are integral to his successful security business. (Photo: Courtesy of the Powell Family.)

    More Community News

    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...

    “I’m With Tish”

    Marlon Rice Reflects on Growing Support for Letitia James This past summer's ultimate block parties...

    Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

    Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. Greene “What you need to know for now is...

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

    The Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series — the first...

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

    On Wed., Oct. 22, 2025 at 7 pm, Reel Sisters and the Brooklyn Academy...

    Health and Wellness

    “From the Office to the Fight: Angelica Barker, OBH Employee and Survivor”

    By Amanda Barrett For 15 years, Angelica Barker has been a dedicated member of the One Brooklyn Health (OBH) team, serving as an oncology data...

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

    By Deon Jones,Founder & Executive Director,Uniquely Me Creative Arts In Brooklyn, families raising children with...

    From Entrepreneurship to Community Organizing

    Fern GillespiePromoting Sickle Cell Awareness Month every September is personal for Kenesha Traynham-Cooper, the...

    A Mother and Son’s Shared Path to Better Health

    By: Amanda BarrettSince settling in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, Denise Owens has spent the last 33 years receiving care through One Brooklyn Health Interfaith Medical Center and now its care, Bishop Orris G. Walker, Jr. Health Care Center. A trusted, neighborhood-based multispecialty...

    Choosing Faith Over Hustle: Redefining Success, Masculinity, and the Pace of Life

    By: Curtis Bryant In a world that celebrates busyness as virtue, it's easy for men to believe their value is found only in what...

    Events

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

    "Divine Nine Sunday, December 14, transformed the Whitney Museum of American Art in...

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

    The We Outside Tour, led by three-time Grammy winner Tye Tribbett, alongside Transformation Worship...

    Of Faith, Fortitude, and New York’s Bravest

    The Vulcan Society Inc held its 2025 Annual Memorial Service in honor of departed...

    Thirty Years of Impacting The Community

    Bridge Street Development Corporation Gala Celebrates Legacy and Renewal On the evening of September 18,...

    Reflections on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., His Dream and Legacy

    The Hon. Ed Towns at Berean Baptist Church (1/18) and Greater Bright Light Missionary Baptist Church (1/19) Former Congressman Ed Towns will deliver speeches honoring The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr, at two churches in Brooklyn this month in celebration of the late Civil Rights...
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