CULTURE

Harlem Week’s Summer in the City 2016 was filled with food, music, entertainment, annual car show and the beautiful people

Cliffannie Forrester is going places. When 18-year-old Brooklyn native snapped photos in Uganda a couple years ago, she probably had

Courtesy of Episcopal News Service (ENS) By M. Dion Thompson At its recent convention, the Diocese of Maryland took the

LOCAL AND NATIONAL ARTISTS WILL DEVELOP ARTWORK The first-ever “Art Wall” in the region will deco- rate PSE&G’s Fairmount Heights

On Monday, more than one thousand families joined State Senator Kevin Parker (D, WF) for his 12th Annual Martin Luther

By Tony Horwitz Smithsonian Magazine At a bygone plantation in coastal Georgia, Joseph McGill Jr. creaks open a door to

The Black Panther Party was founded fifty years ago — and still, many misconceptions about its revolutionary work run rampant. “The Black Panthers: Vanguard

“My Afrocentric Life,” by Akilah Johnson (courtesy of Google 2016) JUST LAST month, Akilah Johnson was “surprised and overwhelmed” when she

Rev. Kahlil Carmichael (author) This year my mother celebrated her 66th birthday. I am amazed by my parents’ ability to