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Supporter of Renaming Rochester Airport to Honor Frederick Douglass Gets Death Threat

By Nanette D. Massey Financial advisor Richard Glaser had trouble logging into his workstation remotely on Monday, July 20th. He

A Broadway Market on-line Community Engagement Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 23 at 6 p.m. CJS Architects and its

This year’s ROC Juneteenth 5K Run/Walk comes at a time when we are reminded, once again, that justice in America

by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, PhD Ida Dora Fairbush was born on October 15, 1869 and died on September 20,

Labor Day was founded after the Pullman Strike of 1894, when President Cleveland was hoping to gain political allyship by

While America Reels in the Wake of the Most Recent Acts of Domestic Terrorism by White Supremacists, We Recall the

Father Augustine Tolton, the first African-American Catholic priest who started life enslaved in the 19th century U.S. South, is on

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of the enslavement of Africans in the United States. Dating back

By Toure @toure I think we should seriously consider a national holiday celebrating the life of a man who indelibly

by Gail Lyons Recently, on a frigid Buffalo wintry day, I ventured downtown to the Central Library’s African American Museum