In the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches . . .
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8/19/21
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moved some shelves in my basement recently only to discover black mold on the wall. My basement is a little musty most of the time and I run a dehumidifier . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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8/12/21
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One hundred years ago, Memorial Day was the start of perhaps the worst anti-Black racist violence in the history of the United States, in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Okla.
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By Alan Singer
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6/3/21
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Zoom and other online video conferencing applications are exposing the underlying racism that infects American society, including in its schools.
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By Alan Singer
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5/20/21
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Time-travel with me. The year was 1957. We had just moved to Cedarhurst from Queens, and it was the first day of class at Number Three School on Broadway.
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5/6/21
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March 2021: embracing the change. Covid-19 isn’t something that has just afflicted us; it changed us in ways that are irreversible.
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3/25/21
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In honor of Black History Month, Herald Inside LI will host a webinar featuring Black leaders on Long Island on February, 25 at 9:30 a.m.
Speakers will include Phil Andrews, the …
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By Nicole Alcindor
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2/24/21
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We lost our sense of normalcy in recent years, didn’t we? Nearly every morning of his presidency, Donald J. Trump treated us to . . .
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2/18/21
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During February, Black History Month, we celebrate the great African-American political and civil rights leaders, scientists, artists, poets, movie stars and athletes. But we must also pause to recall America's dark past . . .
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2/4/21
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Black women were front and center at the latest Black Lives Matter protest outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Sept. 24.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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9/28/20
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