Twenty-three years ago this month, jazz vocalist Steve Cromity was a Contract Compliance Manager in the Engineering Department with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey on the 73rd floor of No. 1 World Trade Center.
CEMOTAP (Committee to Eliminate Media Offensive to African People) is waging war against “Netflix A Good Times Reboot.” Supposedly based on the original Good Times TV series, this animated version is nothing like the original. Moreover, it is insulting, demeaning and totally absurd – portraying negative and stereotypical images of Blacks.
As Black History Month comes to an end, I must pay homage to an influential Black leader who recently passed away. That person is the late, Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III of Abyssinia Baptist Church, which is my home church. He died on October 28. 2022 after losing his battle to cancer.
African drums could be heard loudly on Monday to celebrate the dedication of a Central Park gate for the group of men known as The Exonerated Five.
In February 2023, the Cultural Museum of African Art Eric Edwards Collection (CMAAEEC,) the largest collection of African Art in New York State, will be open to visitors at Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
Many of us know that cultural events like BAM’s DanceAfrica Festival and the International African Arts Festival which feature African-centered everything from live entertainment to food to clothing to jewelry to grooming aids to paintings also serve as a great way for creators to introduce their work to the world. This year’s Festival was no exception and participants included Newcomers like Lennir Menjazz, a young comic book promoter.
The following letter was emailed to the City Hall press office of New York City and addressed to Mayor Eric Adams on January 31, 2022.
Dear Honorable Mayor Eric Leroy Adams,
Homeowners and business owners in New York who were affected by Hurricane Ida can now apply for federal disaster relief, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA.)
Shocking video has been shared with Grassroots Wire showing a MTA bus crash into a limestone building in Brooklyn on Monday. The video shows a male bus driver moving bags near the steering wheel, then he sits down behind the steering wheel, next he hits two vehicles and lastly, he crashes.
Before 2020 ended, Magnolia Tree Earth Center broke ground for expansion. The Center is the brainchild of environmental activist Hattie Carthan.
The story goes that in the 1960s, Carthan was on the bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn when she noticed a lovely, tall magnolia tree. As an admirer of the tree, she led a group of community residents to save this rare evergreen when it was threatened to be destroyed by nearby construction.
