With Black History Month in full swing, groups and organizations around town are hosting events to honor the contributions of black leaders throughout history.
Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach will …
more
By Bridget Downes
|
2/8/19
|
As a senior at Mepham High School in Bellmore, I’m excited that ERASE Racism has launched a Long Island-wide public discussion called “How Do We Build a Just Long Island?”
more
By Gabriela Daza
|
2/8/19
|
The main hallway of the North Shore Historical Museum was alive with the celebratory voices of the First Baptist Church Adult Choir on Sunday, as the group performed a variety of gospel songs for a …
more
By Mike Conn
|
2/7/19
|
February is Black History Month, and African-American history is very much a story of migration. Between 1916 and 1970, 6 million black people left behind the shackles of the rural South and its …
more
1/31/19
|
Fourth and fifth grade members of Glen Head Elementary’s Dignity For All club have spent the last few weeks of the school year preparing for their performance of “The Time Machine,” an original …
more
By Alyssa Seidman
|
3/29/18
|
Members of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center on North Centre Avenue gathered to celebrate Black History Month on Feb. 24, as the center’s youth displayed their many talents during the ceremony.
more
By Ben Strack
|
3/1/18
|
Part 1 of 2
Moxey Alexander Rigby (c.1894-1962), was a graduate of Freeport High School and a long time Freeport resident. When elected to the District Court in 1959, he …
more
By the Friday Night Crew (Cynthia Krieg, Regina Feeney
and Denise Rushton)
|
2/23/18
|
In honor of Black History Month, community members came out to celebrate the contributions of black artists through literature and song at an open mic program called “Still We Rise.”
Hosted …
more
By Bridget Downes
|
2/22/18
|
As part of Black History Month, students at Rhame Avenue School learned about influential African Americans on Feb. 15.
more
By Melissa Koenig
|
2/22/18
|
Third-grade students at Marion Street Elementary School honored Joseph McNeil, an activist who helped lead nonviolent protests against segregation in Greensboro, N.C. in 1960, with a gold medal as the star of their Civil Rights Olympics on Feb. 16.
more
By Mike Smollins
|
2/22/18
|