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Paying Homage To Ntozake Shange On Third Anniversary Of Her Passing

Marking the third anniversary of iconic playwright Ntozake Shange’s passing, Camille A. Brown, director, and choreographer of the upcoming 2022 Broadway production of Shange’s seminal work.Continue reading

The Alumni Association Of CCNY Announces Dr. Deborah Lipstadt As 2021 Finley Awardee

The Alumni Association of the City College of New York (AACCNY) has officially announced Dr. Deborah Lipstadt as the honoree of the 2021 John H. Finley award. Continue reading

Former Harlem Resident And President Bill Clinton Attends Reading At The Neighborhood Playhouse

Former President and Harlem resident Bill Clinton attended a reading of "Waiting for Lefty" at the famed Neighborhood Playhouse.Continue reading

Stories Of NYC Undocumented And Migrant Writers Published In DREAMing Out Loud Anthology

The literary and free expression organization PEN America has published DREAMing Out Loud: Voices of Migrant Writers.Continue reading

Raymond Melbourne Weaver, Biographer Of Melville And Professor Of English At Columbia In Harlem

Raymond Melbourne Weaver, 1888 – April 4, 1948, was a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1916–1948 in Harlem, NY.Continue reading

Harlem Through The Lens Of Dawoud Bey

Over the years, Harlem, a neighborhood in Manhattan, has undergone a transition that photographer Dawoud Bey best captures.Continue reading

Kevin McGruder’s “Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem” Book Talk

Join Harlem Business Alliance (HBA) on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, at 6:30 pm for this sure-to-be engaging book presentation.Continue reading

Harlem’s Hubert Harrison’s Call To Protest The Unamerican Acts Of The Tulsa Massacre

By Jeffrey Perry One hundred years ago St. Croix-born, Harlem-based, Hubert Harrison, 1883-1927, “the father of Harlem radicalism.” Continue reading

Culinary Demo With Harlem’s Chef Marcus Samuelsson And Chef Melba Wilson

Catch a live culinary demo starring Harlem chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Melba Wilson on April 28, 2021.Continue reading

Manhattanville College MFA Director Named A Finalist For Prestigious Literary Award

Lori Soderlind, director of the Harlem's Manhattanville College MFA in a creative writing program, has been named a 2021 finalist for the prestigious Lambda Literary Awards.Continue reading

Harlem Fave Kobena Mercer Joins Bard College Faculty

Bard College is pleased to announce the appointment of Kobena Mercer as the Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities,Continue reading

Black Heroes, A Black History Book For Kids, 51 Inspiring People From Ancient Africa To Modern-Day U.S.A.

Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history―biographies for kids ages 8 to 12.Continue reading

Mike’s World: Greenwood Speaks From Harlem To Hollywood

By Michael McQuillan “Life is a spark between two identical voids,” psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom writes in Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death, “the darkness before birth and the identical one after death.”Continue reading

Harlem’s Cicely Tyson’s New Book Just as I Am: A Memoir Hardcover Hits End Of The Year

Harlem born Cicely Tyson, born December 19, 1924, Continue reading