By Emily Drooby “I will always defend the sacred right to life” — a strong statement coming from President Donald Trump on Sept. 23 […]
By Emily Drooby Weeksville, Brooklyn was one of the first communities for free black Americans in the nation. Now, this almost 200-year-old […]
Currents News Staff Feb. 15 would have been the two-hundredth birthday of one of America’s most famous suffragettes: Susan B. Anthony. Anthony […]
By Jessica Easthope Shattered windows, wooden boards and a crumbling façade are all part of the face of freedom at 227 Duffield […]
Currents News Staff February 1 marks National Freedom Day, honoring the signing of the resolution that later became the Thirteenth Amendment to […]
Currents News Staff Four hundred years ago this month, the first documented Africans were brought to British North America. The arrival of […]
Currents News Staff On August 18, a lightning strike hit the steeple of Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church in Auburn, New York, […]
Brooklyn, commonly known as the Diocese of Immigrants, is earning the title “The Diocese of Abolitionists” as the Brooklyn Historical Society is […]