Award-Winning Journalist Cheryl Wills Launches New Book, “Isn’t Her Grace Amazing,” A Salute To Gospel Queens
Emmy Award-winning journalist Cheryl Wills launches her new book, Isn’t Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music.
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Bill Barclay’s The Chevalier, A Concert Theater Work About Black Composer, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
On July 10, 2022, Caramoor presents The Chevalier, a concert theater work about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
The 20th Annual ImageNation Outdoors Festival Launches With Drive-In Movie And A Stanley Nelson Screening In Harlem
ImageNation Film Festival’s 20th Annual ImageNation Outdoors Festival kicks off Saturday, July 9th thru September 10, 2022.
WORLD Channel Celebrates JUNETEENTH With Films Featuring Harlem’s Cicely Tyson, Fannie Lou Hamer, And More
WORLD Channel, the multiplatform channel bringing diversity to public media.
Q & A With Sr. Dorothy Hall, Feeding Harlem’s Hungry As The Pandemic Continues
By Chris Herlinger Is life returning to a pre-pandemic “normal” in New York City?
African Americans’ First Memorial Day In Charleston, South Carolina, 1865
The first widely publicized observance of a Memorial Day-type observance after the Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 1, 1865.
A Juneteenth No Cost Weekend Of Events At Lincoln Center, Harlem Stage And Park Avenue Armory
Check out the series of FREE NYC events happening the weekend of Juneteenth at Lincoln Center, Harlem Stage, and Park Avenue Armory, all curated by Carl Hancock Rux.
The Harlem Chamber Players Present The Harlem Renaissance Masterpiece The Ordering of Moses
Having been on pause since the pandemic, Liz Player (Founding Executive and Artistic Director, Harlem Chamber Players) is pleased to announce the rare NYC performance.
The Star Shine At UNWFPA Awards Luncheon In Support Of Educating At-Risk And Underprivileged Girls
UNWFPA President Rema DuPont presented a posthumous Legacy Award for Muna, accepted by her husband and biggest supporter, H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al- Nasser, with their son, Aziz Al-Nasser in the audience.
PitchBLACK: Largest Pitch Competition for Black, Independent Filmmakers where Participants Compete for up to $150K in Funding
Filmmakers and creative technologists will vie for up to $150,000 in project funding at Black Public Media’s PitchBLACK Forum, on April 26 and 27, 2022 the largest pitch competition for Black, independent filmmakers and creative technologists in the United States.
Gateways Music Festival: The Marian Anderson String Quartet At The 92nd Street Y On The Upper East Side
The 92nd Street Y, (just 20 minutes from Harlem) one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents the Gateways Music Festival: The Marian Anderson String Quartet on Friday, April 22, 2022, at 7:30 pm ET at Buttenwieser Hall.
Reel Sisters Gives $15K To BIPOC Women Creatives From Their Micro Budget Film Fellowship
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series, the first Academy qualifying festival devoted to women filmmakers, recently announced their winners for their Micro-Budget Film Fellowship.
Hip Hip Hooray, Hip Hip Hooray, Harlem Native Andy Garcia Wins Prestigious Watson Travel Fellowship
Bard College senior and Harlem native Andy Garcia ’22 has been awarded a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which provides for a year of travel and exploration outside the United States.
Trailblazing Economist, Social Theorist, And Senior Fellow, Harlem’s Thomas Sowell 1930 –
Thomas Sowell, Harlem born June 30, 1930 – is an economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Harlem’s Legendary Samuel Jesse Battle, The First African-American New York City Police Department Officer, 1883 – 1966
Samuel Jesse Battle, January 16, 1883 – August 7, 1966, was an American police officer and the first African-American New York City Police Department officer, sworn in on March 6, 1911.