Part II of Four-Part Series* *Note: Part One of reporter Dulan-Wilson’s continuing on-location Wall Street Project stories can be seen at www.ourtimepress.com The Rainbow Push Wall Street Project Economic Summit got under way with a full house, as usual, as more than 700 attendees showed up to take advantage of the information and opportunities Rev. […]Read More
Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 17th Annual Rainbow Push Wall Street Project kicks off Tuesday, February 11, 2014, at a reception at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, at 5:00PM. Normally this event would have taken place in January – and has done so for the past 16 years. This is the first time the Economic […]Read More
BY Gloria Dulan-Wilson One of the greatest icons of the Black Power and Black Arts Movement has made his transition to the ancestors – Brother Amiri Baraka – who was born Everett Leroy Jones and later changed his name to LeRoi Jones, made his transition on January 9, 2014. Born October 7, 1934 in Newark, […]Read More
By Gloria Dulan-Wilson – January 5, 2014 New Yorkers Breathe Easier as Mayor de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer and Public Advocate James take Oaths of Office: Let the Healing Begin! With history having been made in New York, as the Borough of Brooklyn made a clean sweep, having the top administrators elected simultaneously […]Read More
By Gloria Dulan-Wilson Lou Wilson of Mandrill made his transition to the ancestors at the beginning of this year, January 7, 2013. Lou, an accomplished musician and instrumentalists, wrote most of the lyrics and of course the music that made the Mandrill funk band famous: “Fence Walk,” “Mango Meat,” “Hang Loose,” “Land of the Golden […]Read More
By Gloria Dulan-Wilson To state that 2013 is a pivotal year in Black history is an understatement. We are celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the 100th Anniversary of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; and the 43rd year of the Congressional Black Caucus. Converging on […]Read More
My heart goes out to those families in Sandy Hook, Connecticut who so tragically lost their children and loved ones at the hands of Adam Lanza. I watched in horror as scene after scene of police working to get the children safely to their families elapsed over the television. It’s a day many will long […]Read More
Congressman Edolphus Towns (D-NY), 10th CD, former chair and now ranking member, of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on mortgage servicing practices and the foreclosure crisis, obviously dismayed over the rising number of foreclosures in Brooklyn – 16,000 in the past year – convened a field Congressional hearing at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Monday […]Read More