Our Time Press

12/11/2025

Sports with Eddie Castro

12/10/2025

"Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story" documentary debuted this week in New York City, and Brathwaite family members are sending us their commentaries on the film about the beloved photojournalist.The documentary Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, directed by Yemi Bamiro and produced by Joanna Boateng of Misfit Entertainment, made its North American debut, last Thursday, Nov. 13 during the DOC NYC 2025 Documentaries Festival presented at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan (DocNYC.net)

https://ourtimepress.com/kwame-brathwaites-beautiful-story-praised-by-family/

The documentary Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, directed by Yemi Bamiro (white sneakers) and produced by Joan Boateng (orange blouse) of Misfit Entertainment, with Lizzie Gillett, Ian Bonhote, and Andrew Calof made its North American debut, last Thursday, Nov. 13 during the DOC NYC 2...

12/10/2025

By Eddie Castro

If you are still a big kid at heart such as me, you can’t help yourselves but get excited we are a few weeks away from Christmas. If you are a baseball fan, you’re even more excited knowing the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings kick off this Sunday in Orlando, Florida. These meetings usually provide baseball fans with some of the most exciting moments in free agency as teams convene for what should be a very busy period of signings of free agents, trades, rule 5 draft discussions and other business.

https://ourtimepress.com/mets-and-yankees-seek-major-upgrades-as-mlb-winter-meetings-begin/

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 07: Cody Bellinger #35 of the New York Yankees hits a double against the Toronto Blue Jays during the sixth inning in game three of the American League Division Series at Yankee Stadium on October 07, 2025 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Ishika Samant/Ge...

12/10/2025

By Kazembe Batts

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was created in 1990 by Congress and is renewable every 18 months at the discretion of the executive branch of government. It allows migrants from countries torn by disasters or political violence to remain in the U.S., protected from deportation, until the country’s environment improves. Somalia has now joined Haiti for specific for cancellation of TPS which will lead to arrests and deportations.

https://ourtimepress.com/anti-black-words-from-trump-as-ice-tps-cancelations-impact-the-african-community/

The Trump administration has doubled down on its overt anti-Black policies both in rhetoric and action.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 6: (L-R) Alexei Laushkin, Rev. Patrick Mahoney and Katie Mahoney hold a banner that reads "Protect the Haitian Community!" on the House East Front Steps at the U.S. Capitol Building on March 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. The three were on Capitol Hill with the Christian Defense C...

12/10/2025

Roger L. Green,former NYS Assembly Member

More than 62 percent of African Diasporic voters supported Zorhan Mamdani’s historic election as the 111th Mayor of New York City. That mandate reflects a deep yearning for transformative leadership willing to confront the anti-democratic and inequitable housing policies that have driven more than 600000 African heritage New Yorkers out of the city in just six years.

https://ourtimepress.com/urging-mayor-elect-mamdani-to-democratize-housing-and-land-use/

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani joins other politicians for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Urban League's new headquarters in Harlem on November 12, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

12/10/2025

Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneThe Queen of Sugar Hill:A Novel of Hattie McDanielReShonda Tate. William Morrow,420 pages, 2024.With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel ScottReShonda Tate. William Morrow, 402 pages, 2026

For every woman who has ever felt unseen, whose brilliance was overlooked, whose voice was silenced, whose story was never told,This is for you. -ReShonda Tate, With Love from Harlem

The Queen of Sugar Hill and With Love from Harlem are historical novels based on the lives of two Black women who made history in film, theater, and music. National best-selling author and award-winning journalist ReShonda Tate tells the story of Hattie McDaniel in The Queen of Sugar Hill (William Morrow, 2024) and the story of Hazel Scott in With Love from Harlem (William Morrow, 2026). Tate’s epigraph at the beginning of With Love from Harlem applies to the protagonists in both novels.
https://ourtimepress.com/they-refused-to-be-silenced/

Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneThe Queen of Sugar Hill:A Novel of Hattie McDanielReShonda Tate. William Morrow,420 pages, 2024.With Love from Harlem: A Nove

12/10/2025

By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large

From armchair activists who just refused to click and drag to shopping carts on major shopping sites during last week’s Mass Blackout, proving the power of the Black community’s dollar, to those who shopped from Black and small local businesses on Small Business Saturday instead, the economic point was made.

https://ourtimepress.com/the-power-in-your-purse/

By Nayaba ArindeEditor-at-Large From armchair activists who just refused to click and drag to shopping carts on major shopping sites during last week’s Mas

12/10/2025

By Mary Alice Miller

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn’t belong: Eric Adams, Laurie Cumbo, Letitia James, Hakeem Jeffries, and Walter Mosley. The Fab Five of Central Brooklyn served their constituents well and earned their career trajectories.

https://ourtimepress.com/sigh-we-had-so-much-hope-for-eric-adams/

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 27: NYC Mayor Eric Adams attends the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

12/10/2025

There’s a certain kind of restaurant that doesn’t try too hard to impress you and ends up winning you over anyway. The Bedford, located at 110 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, is exactly that kind of restaurant.

https://ourtimepress.com/where-comfort-meets-cool-the-bedford-shines-in-williamsburg/

The RSC fish and chips at The Bedford, 110 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn

12/04/2025

Sports program

11/20/2025

Our Times Press presents Sports Talk with Eddie Castro

11/16/2025

Stanley B. White's Because I Said So… That's What's for Dinner! The Single Dad's Guide to Mealtime is hailed by reviewers as "your go-to companion for navigating the kitchen as a single dad." Released this past June, the Bronx-based author's "comprehensive guide offers a wealth of easy, nutritious recipes designed specifically for busy fathers and their kids," it is reported.

https://ourtimepress.com/more-than-a-cookbook/

Mr. White with son, Lorenzo. Lorenzo talks about his dad in next week's Part II.