Background: The 19th Annual Juneteenth celebration produced and hosted by the Cooperative Culture Collective at Cuyler Gore Park in Fort Greene, June 15 was themed “Celebrating Ourstory and Pouring into Our Future!”. Graham B. Weatherspoon and Richard Green were keynote speakers. In recent issues, Our Time Press presented an interview with Green in two […]Read More
Brooklyn Lawmakers Call on Governor to Sign Bill A bill that would rename two subway stations in Central Brooklyn in recognition of Medgar Evers College has passed both houses of the legislature and could become law with the governor’s approval. The bill would order the MTA to append the local college’s name to both the […]Read More
By Marlon Rice I was working out on the Myrtle Avenue side of Fort Greene Park the other morning. It was early, around 8am. After I finished up, I decided to walk through the park to the DeKalb side to grab some coffee. At the top of the stairs, on the other side […]Read More
Brooklyn’s own Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for President of the United States, was honored in a big way last week with the opening of Shirley Chisholm State Park in East New York. Under the initial $20 million phase, the park will provide ten miles of marked trails for hiking and […]Read More
U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (Democrat) memorialized her late predecessor, U.S. Rep. Major Owens (D-Central Brooklyn), this past weekend with a renaming of the post office at 1234 St. Johns Place in Crown Heights. Located in Clarke’s congressional district, the newly named “Major Robert Odell Owens Post Office” resulted from Clarke’s bill, H.R. 5238, which became […]Read More
(Published in Our Time Press monthly, 2/97 & 4/97) … on Spoken Word. In all cultures the spoken word came before the written word. The spoken word is natural. Reading and writing are artificial, acquired characteristics. Unless there’s some kind of physiological defect, you are born with the ability to utter […]Read More
The discussion of reparations comes at another turning point in American history. The Supreme Court has ruled that partisan gerrymandering is outside of court control. This means that the Republican Party, now controlled by white supremacists, will continue to cement their voting power by devising voting districts that favor their control and cram […]Read More
When we think of great orators, the names of Frederick Douglass, The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X easily come to mind. Although their messages of justice and freedom ring in harmony still, the mic is live and has not been dropped by their Brooklyn-based heirs. We heard two of them – […]Read More
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