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Our Time Press
The Local Paper With a Global View
TypeWeekly newspaper
OwnerDBG Media
Founder(s)David Mark Greaves and Bernice Elizabeth Green
FoundedFebruary 1996; 30 years ago (1996-02)
CityBrooklyn, New York
CountryUnited States
Websitewww.ourtimepress.com

Our Time Press is a progressive Brooklyn-based African-American community newspaper.[1][2] Co-founded by David Mark Greaves and Bernice Elizabeth Green and owned by DBG Media, publishers of Our Time Press, Inc. a privately held company.[3] As of 2016 the newspaper has a circulation of about 20,000 copies.[4][5]

Greaves described it as "an African-American paper. We speak from an African-American perspective, or at least try to..." The focus is on downtown Brooklyn through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Brownsville, though the subtitle is, "The Local Paper with the Global View."[6] It is the largest African-American owned and operated newspaper in Brooklyn.[7]

In 2000, the paper was described as "probably one of the most important progressive publications out there,"[1] Greaves is the son of the documentary filmmaker William Greaves.[8][9] Bernice Green is the daughter of community activist Janie Green. Errol Louis used to write a column for the paper.[10] The paper has a sister publication, Our Time at Home created by Green.[11]

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  1. 1 2 Scher, Abby (August 2000). "Taking the Good (News) with the Bad". Resist Newsletter. Vol. 9, no. 1. ISSN 0897-2613. Archived from the original on February 27, 2001. Retrieved July 17, 2025.
  2. Velluci, Michelle (July 28, 1998). "Paper to publish Brawley stepfather interview Aug. 2". Poughkeepsie Journal. pp. 2A. An African American community newspaper says...
  3. "Dbg Media". manta. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  4. "Our Time Press". mondotimes. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  5. "Our Time Press Media Kit [pdf]". Our Time Press. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  6. Sen, Indrani. "Breaking Bread: David Greaves, Editor of Our Time Press". Voices of NY. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  7. "Our Time Press, the largest African-American owned and operated newspaper in Brooklyn, NY endorses Mayoral Candidate John Liu – the people's choice". UnityFirst.com. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  8. Greaves, David (2021). "Interview with David Greaves". In Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, Scott MacDonald (ed.). "William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission" (Interview). Interviewed by Scott MacDonald.
  9. Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma; MacDonald, Scott, eds. (2021). "Interview with David Greaves". William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231553193.
  10. Edel, Raymond A. (August 15, 2008). "Errol Louis gets a morning show". The Record. p. 42.
  11. About...Time Magazine. p. 27. Vols. 35–36.
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