Beverly Johnson is busy these days from celebrating the 40th anniversary of becoming the first African-American woman on the cover of Vogue to overseeing the Beverly Johnson Hair Collection to completing a memoir.
The folks at the 25th Annual Ms. Full-Figured USA Pageant gave Harlem a shout out about their milestone, the 25th Annual Ms. Full-Figured USA Pageant was held recently at Newark, New Jersey’s Robert Treat Hotel, to a standing-room-only crowd.
With two stores in Harlem the New Jersey-based plus-sized fashion retailer Ashley Stewart filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 on Monday in Newark that will allow the company to file for bankruptcy and restructure its financials.
Harlem World Magazine caught with President of the 1199SEIU Benefit Fund Staff Association Malkia King with a quick online interview before the first event in honor of Black History Month and Mother’s Who Lost Children To Gun Violence.
By Seitu Oronde This time Seitu Oronde was at the Schomburg Center on 135th Street in Harlem for a Black History Month event with Ted Wilson, Ras Baraka, Woodie King, Jr.,.
Black History Music promises to be a compelling concert of poetry and jazz by renowned poet, playwright, and jazz historian Amiri Baraka.
Tia Fuller Beautiful music, from a talented artist, the Harlem lover releases her latest album Angelic Warrior this month. The veteran pauses to reflect on working with Beyonce’, Esperanza Spaulding, her fave thing to do in Harlem and teaching at a Catholic school.
Leroy Edward Eley, Sr., a loving and devoted father, grandfather, son, brother, friend, and Military Instructor Pilot was born May 27, 1927 in Harlem, NY and transitioned from this earth into the arms of his heavenly Father, on August 30, 2012.
Central Park was 5 degrees Tuesday morning, the coldest it’s been on a Jan. 7 since 1896, according to NBC New York reports Business Insider.com.
The crowd was three deep at the bar at Rao’s that night. The East Harlem red-sauce joint, famous for its lemon chicken, celebrity clientele, and the impossibility of securing a table, was never known for a booming bar scene.
Harlem’s sanitation department has issued a “snow alert” starting at 6 a.m. Tuesday.
By Walter Rutledge Make no mistake I am a true New Yorker! For me the sun rises over the East River and set across the Hudson.
Mabel Louise Smith was born in Jackson Tennessee (May 1, 1924 – January 23, 1972). In the early nineteen thirties the young Mabel won an amateur singing contest in Memphis, and decided that performing was for her.
Reginald E. Gilliam, Jr., a trailblazing African-American lobbyist and most recently Sodexo Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, passed away at the age of 67 on March 28, 2012 after succumbing to lymphoma.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNaiNjO18I] Harlem lady Alicia Keys sings Send Me An Angel at Whitney Houston’s ceremony on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ (her hometown).