The lives and legacies of three giants of American History — Frederick Douglass, W.E. B. DuBois and Adam Clayton Powell III — will take center stage at Woodie King Jr.’s National Black Touring Circuit’s Black History Month Play Festival, in separate performances occurring at various theatres, weekends, February 8 – 24. “This year’s Festival examines […]readmore
Petitioning season is months away and candidates for 2013 races are beginning to position themselves. With many open seats due to term limits and late deciders just entering campaigns, voters will have to pay close attention. For months, state Senator Eric Adams – who made a strategic long-term plan to make history by running for […]readmore
Students at Medgar Evers College were prescient regarding the eminent leadership crisis at the school. Mere days before President Pollard announced his resignation, a group called Students for Owens called for Congressman Major Owens to lead the college on an interim basis. “Yes, I would do it,” Owens said when asked. “It ought to be […]readmore
Now that the Super Bowl is over and done with, what will the Jets and Giants roster look like in the 2013-14 season? The Jets season was just one big circus, led by coach Rex Ryan. Ryan did not make any guarantees about his team making the Super Bowl as he did the previous 2 […]readmore
As we celebrate Black History Month, the contributions made acknowledging and appreciating our youth by musicians (now deceased) are remembered. Being artists, they captured with music and words the promise of youth –reminding us of our duty to them. But then that is the awesome ability of artists – to illustrating and transforming analysis and […]readmore
Follow the money is the general rule when you think a crime has been committed, and because at 80% of the children in ACS programs are African-American or Hispanic, we questioned if the businesses receiving city payments for children supplies reflected that diversity, it had been suggested that it did not, and that is why […]readmore