Our Time Press

Our Time Press The Local Newspaper With the Global View Our Time Press is the largest African American fully owned and operated weekly newspaper in Brooklyn, New York.

Founded in 1996 as a monthly periodical by husband and
wife team David Mark Greaves and Bernice Elizabeth Green, the multi-award winning, family-run paper
is published by DBG Media and enjoys a diverse readership of 40,000 weekly throughout New York
City, Westchester, the Capital Region and beyond.

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01/31/2025

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The View from HereDavid Mark GreavesSo, judging by the first week of the new presidential administration, what we have is an oligarchic, kleptocratic, White supremacist, patriarchal kakistocracy taking control of the United States government. Wow, that was fast. Of course, it was easy since they ran...

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01/31/2025

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Pentagon intelligence agency pauses events, and activities related to MLK Day, Black History Month By Will SteakinMatt Seyler,abcnews.go.comThe pause comes after Trump targeted DEI initiatives in executive orders.In response to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning diversity, equity and...

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01/31/2025

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By David Mark GreavesWe had an opportunity to interview Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion last week. We met in a small meeting room at a table covered with a forest green cloth, and asked him first about his response to the raft of Executive Orders that have been flying out the Oval Office like [.....

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01/31/2025

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By Mary Alice MillerWhen Donald Trump said he would be a dictator on his first day in office, apparently, he wasn’t joking. Among the scores of executive orders he signed on Inauguration Day were challenges to the U.S. Constitution and legislation passed by both Houses of Congress and signed into ...

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01/31/2025

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By Nayaba ArindeEditor at Large@NayabaArinde1With President Donald Trump’s slim margin in the house, mid-terms in two years may be both the brake and the motivation.As the new administration begins with threats to health care, social services, and benefits, Brooklyn Assemblywoman Stefani Zinerman ...

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01/31/2025

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By Lyndon TaylorIn a dominant performance, Uncommon Charter High School secured a 31-17 victory against Prospect Heights High School in Division 2A of the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) Girls Varsity Basketball competition, last Saturday in Brooklyn. Uncommon High controlled the game from the...

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01/31/2025

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Fern GillespieWhile this new presidential administration is determined to deconstruct racial justice gains in America, Brooklyn Org, a philanthropic foundation, continues to embrace social and racial justice as a mission to empower Brooklynites through nonprofit grants and mentoring programs dealing...

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01/31/2025

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By Eddie CastroThis past Monday, the New York Jets introduced Aaron Glenn alongside Darren Mougey as the team’s next Head Coach and General Manager at the practice facility in Florham Park, New Jersey. Glenn was drafted by the Jets in the 1994 draft and played for the team until 2001. He has had m...

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01/29/2025

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By Fern Gillespie Reflecting on this year’s symbolic Martin Luther King Day, Our Time Press reached out legendary Tony and Obie winning theatre producer and director Woodie King Jr. As the founder of Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theatre (NFT) and the National Black Touring Circuit, King had bro...

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01/25/2025

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, crimi...

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01/25/2025

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By Mary Alice MillerPrissana Alston spent decades of her career in nursing leadership: Nurse Manager and Director of Patient Care Services at The New York Hospital (now known as New York Presbyterian), Vice President for Nursing at Silvercrest Center Nursing Rehabilitation, Deputy Director of Nursin...

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01/25/2025

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From Mountaintops to Valleys Low, King’s Presence & Words Prevailed Nationwide Monday, January 20 By Nayaba ArindeEditor at Large@NayabaArinde1It was a unique historical moment on Monday, January 20th. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s 96th birthday was honored as a federal holiday on the same day a...

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01/25/2025

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In 1957, 14-year-old Carlotta Walls was the youngest Little Rock Nine member to integrate Central High School. She and eight other Black students faced angry mobs, racist elected officials, and federal intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to es...

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01/25/2025

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By Yvette MooreIn October 2003, when the bones of 18th century formerly enslaved Africans were returned to the African Burial Ground site in Lower Manhattan, I was blessed to be on sabbatical from my job and volunteering at my children’s school in Deborah Barber’s fourth-grade class at PS 308 on...

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01/25/2025

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By Eddie CastroWith the trade deadline less than 3 weeks away, the Brooklyn Nets may very well be active in trading key assets in hopes of reshaping the future of their franchise. The team has already shown their willingness to unload key players having traded Dennis Schroder to the Golden State War...

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01/25/2025

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By Mary Alice MillerHours after he was inaugurated for the second time, Donald Trump signed dozens of executive orders that will impact New York, the nation, and the world. Executive orders are generally public relations statements that promote the administration’s agenda. Some of Trump’s execut...

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01/18/2025

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By Mary Alice MillerGovernor Hochul’s State of the State address focused on affordability and safety, two themes designed to persuade New Yorkers to raise their families in the state instead of moving elsewhere under financial pressure. In the forward to her 129-page 2025 State of the State book, ...

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01/18/2025

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President Biden’s Farewell Address: The President delivered speech from the Oval Officein the White House My fellow Americans, I’m speaking to you tonight from the Oval Office. Before I begin, let me speak to important news from earlier today. After eight months of nonstop negotiation, my admini...

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