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Rahsaun Williams, a Queens resident, was fatally shot just days before his 40th birthday. The incident occurred around 7:30 p.m. on Friday when Williams confronted a man who had groped his on-again, off-again girlfriend, police said. The altercation turned violent, and the assailant shot Williams in the stomach and left shoulder. Williams had rushed to…
Black leaders in New York are reacting in diverse ways to the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams,...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams remains resolute about his innocence after being indicted following...
Former New York Jets wide receiver Randall Cobb is searching for a new home after a fire damaged...
Two New York state school districts are conducting investigations into allegations of spectators hurling racial epithets at high school girls during a varsity basketball game. According to Dejane Buckley,...
The parents of seven kids have been indicted by a grand jury on child abuse charges. Court records say, Travis Doss, 31, assaulted and denied the children food while he kept them in an animal cage. He...
In the mid-1960s, Dr. Jane Wright was regarded as the highest-ranked African American in the medical field. Aside from being the first woman to assume office at the New York Cancer Society, she pioneered...
The career path for Amos Windbush III was not clear-cut and laid out from the start. He spent quite a long time singing R&B tunes behind microphones before he became a household name. However, an uneventful...
The Morgans are known to be creative when it comes to starting a business to benefit their immediate community. So when African American beauty mogul, Rose Morgan, persuaded her neighborhood kids to sell...
Black educator and abolitionist, George Boyer Vashon, gained recognition in his lifetime as a man of many firsts. Born July 25 1984 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to his mother, Anne Vashon, and his father,...
The lives of many women were dictated in the early 1900s by the prevailing social upheavals. Many African-American women were shut out of their dreams by World War II, the Great Depression, segregation...
It may be considered a rare luxury for enslaved people to own a wardrobe or put themselves across in the most presentable way while working on the plantation. The best appearance the enslaved could have...
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