Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Speaking In Harlem, 1967
We’re not sure where he is speaking in the photograph, bu the figure he strikes says it all of Harlem‘s Adam Clayton Powell, Jr..
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Teacher Throws first-grader down stairs at Harlem school
A teacher allegedly tossed a first-grader with special needs down a flight of stairs at a Harlem elementary school that’s notorious for violence and abuse.
Harlem’s Food Pantries Are Stretched
After she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Jackie Williams says she had a stark choice to make.
Souleo: Why Iyanla Vanzant doesn’t feel need to forgive DMX
While this time of year calls for giving thanks, spiritual life coach Iyanla Vanzant is focused on forgiveness with her new interactive self-help book FORGIVENESS: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything.
Hubert Fauntleroy Julian “The Black Eagle of Harlem”
Hubert Fauntleroy Julian (21 September 1897 – 19 February 1983) was a Trinidad-born African-American aviation pioneer. He was nicknamed “The Black Eagle of Harlem”.
Art In FLUX Pops Up at Aloft Hotel, Harlem
Art In FLUX Harlem and Aloft Hotel launch a collaboration to promote visual artists in Harlem. On the evening of December 3, 2013 Art In FLUX presents two Harlem artists, Andre Woolery and Ruben Natal-San Miguel, in the lobby of Aloft on their dedicated art walls.
Harlem’s A$AP Rocky: ‘Culture Runs Hip-Hop…’
If you ask Trinidad James, Atlanta runs New York’s hip-hop scene; but Bun B and Harlem rap star A$AP Rocky don’t quite see it that way.
George and Ira Gershwin From Central Harlem
George and Ira Gershwin: composers, grew up in Harlem. Lived at 108 West 111th and other addresses.George wrote his first hit song, “Swanee”, at his home at 520 W. 144 Street in 1919.The pair were living at 501 Cathedral Parkway in 1924, and it was in this apartment that George wrote Rhapsody in Blue.
Pleasant Avenue and 116th Street, East Harlem, 1900
Wooden houses, long before the real estate development in East Harlem looking east at Pleasant Avenue and 116th Street, in 1900.
Anthony Mackie Arrested For Drunk Driving In Harlem
Anthony Mackie has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. The ‘Runner Runner’ actor was booked in the early hours of Saturday morning (09.11.13) after he allegedly refused to take a blood-alcohol test.
Chart Says East Harlem Is Horniest Hood
Face it, if you live in a New York City apartment (with those paper-thin walls), you’ve probably awoken to the sounds of your neighbors — ahem — doing the nasty. But, if you’ve noticed this happening more frequently than not, you just might be living in East Harlem.
December Memorial for Harlem’s Rev. Dr. Eugene Callender
A memorial service will be held Dec. 7 for a Harlem civil rights advocate, the Rev. Dr. Eugene Callender.
HW Pick: The Lonely Guy
When Barack Obama arrived in Washington almost five years ago, the universal assumption was that the young president—who had, after all, won office by exploiting every connective tool of the national social and electoral network—would run his White House in sharp contrast to the bunkered, hunkered-down George W. Bush.
Macy’s: ‘No Plans’ to Open Store in Harlem
Macy’s is denying reports that have spread on social media that it is opening a store in Harlem. “We have looked at opportunities in the neighborhood in the past but there are currently no plans to open a store in Harlem,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
Harlem Architect David Adjaye’s Global View
The new affordable apartment complex going up at the corner of 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in the uppermost reaches of Manhattan cuts an unlikely figure.