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February 25, 2020

By Emily Drooby Weeksville, Brooklyn was one of the first communities for free black Americans in the nation. Now, this almost 200-year-old […]

February 25, 2020

By Jessica Easthope and Melissa Enaje EAST NEW YORK — The Nigerian Igbo community celebrated its annual remembrance of the Holy Family’s flight […]

February 13, 2020

By Jessica Easthope Shattered windows, wooden boards and a crumbling façade are all part of the face of freedom at 227 Duffield […]

February 10, 2020

Currents News Staff A rare handwritten note by Martin Luther King Jr., believed to have been written sometime in the mid-1960s, is […]

January 28, 2020

Currents News Staff February 1 marks National Freedom Day, honoring the signing of the resolution that later became the Thirteenth Amendment to […]

January 20, 2020

By Tim Harfmann and Jazmin Rosa BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Martin Luther King Jr. Day was marked locally with an interfaith prayer service at […]

January 15, 2020

Currents News Staff Martin Luther King Day is celebrated on Monday, Jan. 20, but Jan. 15 would have been the civil rights […]

August 26, 2019

Currents News Staff Four hundred years ago this month, the first documented Africans were brought to British North America. The arrival of […]

August 20, 2019

Currents News Staff On August 18, a lightning strike hit the steeple of Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church in Auburn, New York, […]

August 5, 2019

Currents News Staff The exhumed body of Julia Greely, a former slave and enthusiastic promoter of the Sacred Heart, has been moved […]