Compiled By Don Thomas The 33rd annual family celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Life and Legacy, sponsored by the Central Brooklyn Martin Luther King Commission, was held at Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights, on Saturday, January 13th. A total of 27 elementary, middle […]
By Leah Hobbs (TriceEdneyWire.com) “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to go back to the good old days. I don’t want to go back to separate and unequal,” Roslyn M. Brock, chairman emeritus of the national NAACP, told a crowd on Jan. […]
By Barbara Arnwine and John Nichols (TriceEdneyWire.com) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first speech at the Lincoln Memorial was not his celebrated 1963 address at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Six years earlier, when he was still a relative newcomer on the […]
By A. Peter Bailey (TriceEdneyWire.com) – When first hearing about TV-One’s cancellation of Roland Martin’s show for “budgetary” reasons, my immediate reaction was bull crap. I am convinced that his show was cancelled because some advertisers and some Trumpets were outraged because of Roland’s Afrocentric […]
By Chandra Wilson Dedicated Visiting Nurse Service of New York workers brave the blizzard, cold and ice to bring aid to their home- bound patients. Whether traveling by mass transit, car, on foot or bicycle, theses brave soldiers plow through all types of adverse weather […]
This is no time for silence By Keith Magee (TriceEdneyWire.com) As the world pauses to honor one of the greatest African Americans, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, most conscious Americans are bowing our heads, though not in prayer. We are enraged that Donald Trump, […]