BY Nayaba ArindeLast week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced that 2025 was the “safest year ever for gun violence with...
By Eddie CastroThe New York Giants were expected to show some improvement this past season from their disappointing 3-14 campaign last year. Team owner John Mara has taken accountability and emphasized that the team needs to improve in all aspects, and changes to...
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...
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)
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
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.)
By Roger L. GreenAs we enter the final days of one of the most consequential political campaigns in New York City’s history, an election the nation and world are watching, voters of African heritage are being called to discern between two distinct visions for...
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...
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...
