CATEGORIES

Paul Tazewell becomes first African American man to win Best Costume Design Oscar with 'Wicked'

History was made at the 97th Annual Academy Awards, held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and broadcast live on NBC, which recognized some theatrical favorites at the March 2 ceremony.

Elizabeth Williams readies for the WNBA after a solid Athletes Unlimited season

With a sixth-place overall finish and being named to the All-Defensive Team for Athletes Unlimited (AU), Elizabeth Williams has demonstrated that she’s back in playing shape after suffering a knee injury during the 2024 WNBA season. She expects to return to the Chicago Sky.

Kids' disability rights cases stalled as Trump overhauls Education Department

It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators telling her to leave it to the experts.

The Knicks look to chart a positive course for a five-game trip out West

Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau wore a look of weariness as he sat at the podium in the press room at Madison Square Garden late Tuesday night.

Solitary confinement ban suspended and under attack due to prison guard strikes

A consent award to end the illegal prison guard strike across 38 of the 42 Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) facilities will continue to partially suspend programming mandated by the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act (HALT) law.

Mayor Eric Adams celebrates expansion of Fatherhood Initiative

The Children's Cabinet recently hosted an event at John Jay College that brought hundreds of parents, policymakers, and scholars together to celebrate the mayor's expansion of the Fatherhood Initiative in New York City.

Harlem mourns the great Dr. Hazel N. Dukes

Dr. Hazel Nell Dukes, civil rights activist and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) New York State Conference, has died at 92. She had reportedly been battling an illness toward the end of her life and died Saturday, Mar. 1, 2025. The announcement was made by Dukes's son, Ronald.

NY Heat Assistance Program experiences brief shutdown, reopens with state intervention

Gov. Hochul reallocates funds to support low-income residents

At youth violence prevention forum, Harlem students call for action on gun violence

The Joseph Gabriel Foundation, in partnership with Democracy Prep Harlem High School, recently hosted a youth violence prevention forum at the Africa Center to raise awareness about the impact of gun violence on young people and bring together a panel of experts to discuss solutions.

Dorella Walters: Dedicated servant, humanitarian, and advocate for equality

Dorella Walters is a distinguished figure in the New York community: She currently serves as chief business development officer at God's Love We Deliver (GLWD), a nonprofit that provides meals for those who, because of illness, cannot cook meals for themselves.

Venezuelan military intimidates U.S. oil assets in Guyana

Last weekend, an armed Venezuelan military vessel intimidated a flotilla of rigs and service vessels being used by American supermajor ExxonMobil to produce oil offshore Guyana.

Novel details the 'Midwife of the Harlem Renaissance'

NAACP Image Award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray recounts the history of the woman who poet Langston Hughes called the “midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” in a new historical fiction novel titled “Harlem Rhapsody,” based on the life of literary editor Jessie Redmon Fauset.

RIP, Bama girl

I called her Bama Girl and she called me Bama Boy, and sometimes laughingly Bama Boyd, but the world knew her as Dr. Hazel Dukes, who on March 1 joined that celestial and illustrious band of ancestors.

Abyssinian Baptist Church celebrates transformative legacy of HBCUs and Divine Nine organizations

Two-day Black History Month event featured Dr. David A. Thomas, 12th president of Morehouse College

Dunlevy Milbank Community Center unveils new drowning-prevention system

The Dunlevy Milbank Community Center has launched a new drowning-prevention system aimed at protecting its youngest swimmers.

Hostos earns a return trip to the NJCAA Women's Basketball Championship

Never underestimate a group of young women who believe in themselves and their abilities.

The miracle of St. John's continues as men's hoops moves up to No. 6

Call it what you will. A miracle. The process. The remarkable ability of Rick Pitino to build college basketball programs. Each would be an apt characterization of St. John’s and their men’s basketball team.

Nets' lineup remains fluid as they try to stay in the play-in race

The Nets' outlook to make the NBA's play-in tournament becomes less favorable with each loss.

Heart disease: A silent killer in New York City's Black community

Voices and stories of resilience and advocacy

Dr. William S. Scarborough, classical scholar extraordinaire

Reading \"The Stained Glass Window\" by Dr. David Levering Lewis (see Michael Henry Adams' insightful review in our pages), I came across the name of William Sanders Scarborough.

NYC electeds rally for Haitian Temporary Protected Status

The Trump administration decided to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian community members by August 2025.

Photog Jamel Shabazz discusses new exhibit at Bronx Documentary Center

Jamel Shabazz can be seen as a quintessential Brooklyn, or rather New York, photographer.

Zoe Saldaña, Afro-Latina of Dominican heritage, wins historic Oscar

While accepting her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in \"Emilia Pérez,\" an emotional Zoe Saldaña, an Afro-Latina woman of Dominican heritage, took a moment to acknowledge her family, many of whom were in the Dolby Theatre, to share in the historic occasion.

LIUNA Local 79 stages three-hour protest at Empire State Building

Chants, shouts, and a cacophony of horns and whistles greeted New York State Senator Jessica Ramos as she stepped up to a makeshift stage in front of the Empire State Building on Saturday, Mar. 1.

PLAYTIME

The old film studios had house styles: M-G-M’s was plush and sentimental, Warner Bros.’ stark and intense.

LIP SERVICE

Zyn and the new nicotine gold rush.

Louisa Thomas on John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu"

The original idea was an assignation. On a dreary Wednesday in September, 1960, John Updike, \"falling in love, away from marriage,\" took a taxi to see his paramour.

TIME AND PLACE

“Tatlin: Kyiv” explores a Russian Constructivist’s Ukrainian identity.

INDESCRIBABLE

The human disaster of the Irish famine.

WHERE'S ELVIS?

Bandits grabbed a kitschy plaster bust. Was it a theft or a liberation?