Our Time Press

Our Time Press is a well-known newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York, that focuses on news and perspectives relevant to the African American community. It has been in circulation since February 1996.

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Mayor Adams’s independent pivot, candidates seem unfazed

2 weeks ago | ourtimepress.com | Nayaba Arinde

By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeOn a longer political runway now – a newly independent candidate Mayor Eric Adams feels that he is cleared to take off for the General Election next November. Columbia Professor Basil Smikle told Our Time Press that Adams’s announcement “was widely expected.” But, “It will be incredibly difficult because he doesn’t have a major party behind him.
The D.R.E.A.M. Adams and Cuomo do not want

3 weeks ago | ourtimepress.com | Nayaba Arinde

By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeAt Our Time Press deadline, news broke that federal judge Dale Ho has dismissed corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice, meaning they cannot be revisited.
Standing Up for America

3 weeks ago | ourtimepress.com | David Greaves

Causing “Good Trouble” New Jersey Senator Cory Booker spoke on the Senate floor for a record-breaking 25 hours and four minutes disrupting Senate business, having decided to make his admiration for Congressman John Lewis real. “If he’s my hero, how am I not living up to his words?” by not standing silent at a time of “crisis” and “recklessness” in the Trump administration.
Griot Ethel L. Jackson Honored in PeekskillBy Sisters Living the Message of The Million Woman March

3 weeks 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.
Girls With Knowledge - Promoting Empowerment and Self-sufficiency

4 weeks ago | ourtimepress.com | Nayaba Arinde

By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-LargeA self-proclaimed “inter-personal individual,” Brooklyn native Marcelle Lashley-Kaboré has a Global Majority perspective with her Girls With Knowledge (GWK) school-based programs. “In GWK, we say that the whole purpose is education, access, and opportunity that leads to action.
View From Here - On Empathy

4 weeks ago | ourtimepress.com | David Greaves

By David Mark GreavesThis Trump Administration is run by those who are the polar opposite of the group of volunteers helping the homeless that my son introduced me to on a visit to Phoenix, Arizona, last weekend. CNN reported on March 3 that Elon Musk said in an interview, “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. “There, they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.
Tubman’s Way has a Place in These Times

4 weeks 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.
Independent politicking, matching funds-denied Democratic Mayor Adams just may pivot

1 month ago | ourtimepress.com | Nayaba Arinde

By Nayaba ArindeEditor at LargeIndependent living and right-of-center political thinking may be on the horizon for 1990s-Republican registered Eric Adams, the embattled Mayor of New York, who is currently Democratic assigned. Late last year, Adams said the “Democrats left me. ” Now, he is not ruling out running as an independent and skipping the contentious June primary altogether.
Spring’s Here, Brooklyn’s Rock Steady

1 month 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.
View From Here

1 month ago | ourtimepress.com | David Greaves

Importance of VotingBy David Mark GreavesThis election is teaching us more about the country than many had believed before. That almost half of the electorate is enthusiastic about electing a man for president who has said he will be a dictator deporting millions and deciding who the justice department and the military should be arresting. They will be arresting those who he sees as opponents “enemies within” or who he believes have disparaged him in the past.