Dr.Lynette Danley founded Black Butterflies, mentoring secondary and middle school black girls and offering workshops on such topics as healthy relationships, black history, depression and teen pregnancy.

Beatrice John­son, 80, said the mostly African-American neighborhood was once beautiful, with streets named after trees, like Willow, Birch, Cherry and Cypress.

Move over, Hollywood; make room for “Nollywood,” the Nigerian film industry, which is staking a foothold in the Bronx.
 

Its harbor drew freed slaves, laborers and sailors in the 18th century, and white locals sold them land. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, middle-class blacks bought or rented summer homes.
 

The Mulligan-Eden American Legion Post 1573 of Harriman is seeking public support to honor the late 2nd. Lt. Emily Jazmin Tatum Perez, the first African-American female to serve as brigade command sergeant major.
 

In Crown Heights, one of the city’s hubs of Orthodox Jewish life, blacks and Jews have long lived side by side and have occasionally clashed.
 

Filmmaker Spike Lee sits down with Anderson Cooper for a Big 360 Interview.

The horrors of Hurricane Katrina forced them to come to New York – but five years later, many evacuees are staying here by choice.

Mother Nature requires time and money, and those are still no guarantee.

With reputed drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke in custody and Jamaica’s state of emergency officially over, many dancehall stars are turning their backs on the violent lyrics that have characterized the genre in recent years.

The release of “Repercussions” came on the same day the former Fugees member performed at the FESPAD Festival in Kigali, Rwanda last month and fueled the rumors that Hill is finally working on a follow-up album.

Gilbert is one of a handful of black artists playing all-acoustic music, a genre black audiences tend to ignore at best and disdain at worst.
 

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