Brooklyn Fury Youth Soccer Located Downtown Brooklyn, this program offers weekend sessions for girls ages 4 through 12 years, introducing them to the game of soccer. Each player will learn the basic rules: dribbling, passing and shooting. The program will also provide an opportunity of challenging children through player interaction and games. There are three […]Read More
In the late 1960’s, a woman named Hattie Carthan noticed that a massive Magnolia Tree was growing in her neighborhood. Magnolia Trees aren’t known to grow much in the north, so to have a 45-foot Magnolia sitting tall and mighty on Lafayette Avenue was a special thing indeed. The tree sat in front of three […]Read More
By Maitefa Angaza Commander James “Rocky” Robinson joined the ancestors on Friday, September 27th at age 79, and the gratitude of thousands went with him. He was the caring and determined visionary who founded the Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corps, thereby easing minds and saving lives in his community for over 30 years. Robinson first answered […]Read More
By Michael Lambert Between 1890 and 1920, after the passing of the 13th Amendment, African American Reformers, including social workers, journalists, educators and politicians, founded the Progressive Movement, based on the belief that great change was needed to protect everyday people. Injustices that impacted African Americans included racism, segregation, political disenfranchisement, lack of access to quality health care, […]Read More
This article is part of the NASA Knows! (Grades 5-8) series. Project Mercury was the NASA program that put the first American astronauts in space. Astronauts made a total of six spaceflights during Project Mercury. Two of those flights reached space and came right back down. These are called suborbital flights. The other four went into orbit and […]Read More
By Victoria Horsford ROBERT SMITH/MOREHOUSE Billionaire/philanthropist Robert Smith was commencement speaker at Morehouse College on May 19 when he announced that he would pay for student loans for the entire Class of 2019 for about 400 men, a gift which translates to about $40 million. He created 400 debt-free Black men who can launch […]Read More
The late Hattie Carthan, the great urban ecology education visionary, who passed April 23, 1984, was bornin Portsmouth, Virginia, September 1901. The date of her transition in last week’s calendar was incorrect. But we republish this portrait of Carthan (far right) and the late Earth Stewardess Mama Leah (seated) as a tribute to April […]Read More
Five Black women, representing more than a combined 150 years of tireless advocacy to communities of color in New York and around the nation, delivered forceful, powerful strategies for “Establishing Our Role in 2019 and Beyond–No More Talk–It’s Time for Action” to an audience of more than 200 on Sunday, March […]Read More
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