Bernice Elizabeth Green

To feature interviews with Lois Harris Powell (Chantels),Delores Kenniebrew (The Crystals) and Beverly Lee (The Shirelles) by Bernice Elizabeth GreenIf the reaction to last week’s Our Time Press story on a little-publicized footnote of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 March is an indicator, Brooklyn remembers and loves The Shirelles, one of the top […]

by Bernice Elizabeth GreenThere’s another ingredient to Brooklyn festivals. In addition to the obligatory food, fun and festivity, a key component is unity of purpose and recognition of the remarkable in ourselves and in others.Last weekend, the annual Sonny Lewis All-Star Memorial Basketball Tournament under the direction Samantha Lewis, daughter of the neighborhood legend, returned […]

Reprint, From August 1998 Special Edition: Tawana Brawley “Evidence Concealed Now Revealed: Great White Hoax Exposed” By Bernice Elizabeth Green Minister Clemson Brown shows up on time at half-past five in the morning (July 6) to pick us up in his road-weary gray van. He and his 15-year-old granddaughter, LaToya, arrived in Brooklyn two hours […]

Legislation for Establishment of African Burial Ground Museum and Education Center Reintroduced by Bernice Elizabeth Green Congressman Dan Goldman (D-10) announced the reintroduction of the African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act Monday, in Lower Manhattan at the African Burial Ground site, joined by U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-12) who first introduced […]

Text and photos by Bernice Elizabeth Green While the drama in Manhattan’s Watson Hotel – between refugee adult men who refused to move, the media and asylum seeker supporters from all over the city-played out, this writer was sent to cover the Brooklyn side of the story of the standoff.There were no huddled masses outside […]

James Earl Jones Theatre Dedication Ceremony Honors Legendary Actor. Renaming Event Also Starred Major Restorations and Improvements to NYC Historic Landmark, formerly the Cort Theatre In the summer of 2020, in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, The Shubert Organization, America’s olde…

Dr. Rudy Cain’sLetter to the EditorsI recently learned that Carlton Ave./Myrtle Ave. has been re-named Richard Wright Way. As a 45-year resident in the area and someone familiar with Wright’s contributions to the literary genre, I was absolutely shocked at this revelation, since there appeared to ha…