Bernice Elizabeth Green

Brooklyn

Co-founder, Publisher and Editor at Our Time Press

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The Grandassa Models Celebrate their Mothers

3 weeks ago | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

“Mothers are the peace on Earth that make the world go round. The love they give is always of hope and blessings so good and pure.”— from The Spirit of a Woman by E. Ballard-Balewa (aka Ameiye— Original Grandassa Model, 1967)Ndola Brathwaite Carlest (Grandassa Model Next Generation)During this Mother’s Day season, I reflect on the strength and grace of my daughter, who has grown up embracing her natural hair in a world that often challenges its beauty.
15 Years of Cultivating Community and Green Spaces in Central Brooklyn

1 month ago | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

This spring, Bridge Street Development Corporation and The Bed-Stuy Works Alliance of Block and Resident Associations are proud to present the 15th Anniversary of Flower Bed-Stuy, a beloved community beautification and engagement initiative that continues to blossom year after year. On Saturday, May 3, 2025, we are celebrating this vibrant tradition at Quincy Senior Residences (625 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221) from 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM, with a brief presentation beginning at 10:30 AM.
Bed-Stuy Strong and Getting Stronger

1 month ago | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

By Bernice Elizabeth GreenMany thousands of trees grow in Brooklyn, and the most famous of them all is rooted in Bedford Stuyvesant on Lafayette Avenue in front of a three-building complex, The Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Beford Stuyvesant.
Griot Ethel L. Jackson Honored in PeekskillBy Sisters Living the Message of The Million Woman March

2 months ago | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

-Bernice Elizabeth GreenIn late winter 1998, artist-photographer Barry L. Mason, his daughter, Da’Nelle Mason and I attended an Underground Railroad tour event hosted by LaFern Joseph in Peekskill, NY. Joseph, proprietor of The Fern Tree gift shop in the city introduced us to historian-writer Ethel Lipscomb Jackson.
Tubman’s Way has a Place in These Times

2 months ago | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

In this photograph taken by Melissa Sutphen in November 1976, these three school-age girls, now possibly 60 years old, are studying a Magnolia seedling as intently as 10-year-olds today peer at cellphone screens. Nearly 3 decades after Sutphen took this shot, Our Time Press attended the historic unveiling of a new street sign co-naming Fulton with Harriet Ross Tubman Avenue. The effort was spearheaded over time by Al Vann, Annette Robinson, Velmanette Montgomery, and other leaders.
Spring’s Here, Brooklyn’s Rock Steady

2 months ago | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

By Bernice Elizabeth GreenThe Rappin’ Max Robot metal installation at Borough Hall Plaza holds court there for just a few more days. Next month, the 18-foot tall and 7,000 lb metal hunk with his 10-ft long boombox moves from its Brooklyn outdoor space to a permanent installation at Place de la Bastille-de-Stalin n Paris, France. Prior to its six-month stay here, Max held court at the Hip Hop Museum in The Bronx.
Abigail Rosen McGrath Passes, and Leaves a Legacy

Jan 9, 2025 | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

By Bernice Elizabeth GreenAbigail Rosen McGrath, founder and director of the historic Renaissance House for Artists & Writers on Martha’s Vineyard and direct heir to the Harlem Renaissance, passed on December 20 at 84. McGrath: writer, artist, producer, actress, entrepreneur, mother, filmmaker, former street performer, Folies Bergère dancer, cook, a neighbor of Basquiat and muse to Andy Warhol – all this and creator of the famous writers’ haven, too.
The Tubman Factor

Dec 27, 2024 | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

Vice President Kamala Harris’ positive messages this month encouraging the next generation of leaders to “stay in the fight” echoed Kwanzaa founder Maulana Karenga’s end-of-year reflections: “We are, each and all of us, always standing at the crossroads of history with our foremother Nana Harriet Tubman, embodying the struggles, hopes, aspirations, prayers, and promise of our people.
Brooklyn Loves Harris! She Came to Bed-Stuy… and left something behind

Sep 12, 2024 | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

by Bernice Elizabeth GreenAt her Tuesday debate with former President Donald Trump at Philadelphia’s National Constitutional Center, Vice President Kamala Harris talked about – in a roundabout way – caring and ethics, plus including the underserved in the balance sheet. It doesn’t sound like a tough economic strategy until you talk to young families who are impacted by not having enough and struggling with uncertain futures.
Sometimes Battles are Forgotten

Sep 5, 2024 | ourtimepress.com | Bernice Elizabeth Green

As the teams supporting Vice President Harris, former President Trump, the networks, the media — from corporate and grassroots village CEOs to the clerks and the cooks, thousands of people, not to mention the viewership prepare for the Presidential debates next week, Trump shows where his focus is — self-interest, not “the people.” There’s no need to think too deeply about the timing of his latest book, “Save America” — announced yesterday and coming out just in time to take advantage of the...