Chancellor Fariña Aannounces NYC Offer Free SAT

Chancellor Fariña today announced that New York City will offer the SAT exam free of charge to all students during the school day in the spring of their high school junior year, starting in the 2016-17 school year. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes,…

Harlem Leading Man Amin Joseph Is Busy

We just got an e-mail from our man Harlem born actor, director and producer, Amin Joseph, who has been busy this summer playing action heroes and villains on the big screen. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World…

HW Pick: ‘Women in Tech, Growing Your Career’ Talk Moderated By Helen Reeves

Join moderator Harlem Columbia University graduate Helen Reeves, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, with Rebecca Garcia, CoderDojo NYC, Adam Creeger, Greenhouse Software, Kelly Bailey, Microsoft and Lorraine Buhannic, AppNexus as they discuss the shortage of women in tech, diversity and that there is not enough qualified female applicants from Harlem to Harare. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe…

HW Pick: Two Girls Become Gaming Moguls On Game Shakers

Harlem kids are allot of things and being super gamers is one of them. They are a part of the 270 million unit sold at $10.5 billion revue in 2009! That’s why we think Harlem kids will love Nickelodeon’s Game Shakers. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine…

Meet Some Of The Folks At Harlem Biospace At Columbia

Dr. Aaron Kyle, is Lead Instructor for the Hk Maker Lab. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of  Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Columbia University in Harlem. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine. (You can…

Common Up Close & Personal At Madiba Harlem At MIST

Lonnie Rashid Lynn, also known as Common, was born March 13 1972.  Fast-forwarding 2 decades, he debuts his first album Can I Have A Dollar? and grows exponentially throughout the 90’s.   Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem…

Fresh Eyes / Harlem Digi Tour Part Of Frieze Week 2015

Public art in Harlem is the best of both world, art and Harlem. Public Art Curator Savona Bailey-McClain is presenting Fresh Eyes, an exclusive, site-specific Harlem Digi-Tour for Frieze Week 2015. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem…

Harlem Rapper Azealia Banks Says: ‘I want to f— the president’

Hell yeah to the chief. Rapper Azealia Banks, in an interview with Billboard magazine, confessed to a major crush on President Obama. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine. (You can unsubscribe anytime)Constant Contact Use.…

Billie Holiday Sings ‘Strange Fruit,’ Harlem, 1939 (audio)

“Strange Fruit” is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday (lived in Harlem during this time), who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by the teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem, it exposed American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to…

Drinking With Miss Lil : Gin Fizz Lounge

By Lil Nickelson When I was a kid growing up in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem, Saturday evening was date night for my parents and they would go out to eat at Sherman’s BBQ on the corner of our block on Amsterdam Avenue and 151st Street or down to Broadway and 145th Street to…

Harlem’s Cameron “Cam’Ron” Ezike Giles

Cameron Ezike Giles (born February 4, 1976), better known by his stage nameCam’ron (formerly Killa Cam), is an American rapper, actor and entrepreneur from Harlem, New York. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine. (You can…

HW Pick: The Talented Mr. Holland In ‘The Knick’ (video)

The amazing André Holland stars in the upcoming Steven Soderbergh for Cinemax show “The Knick”.   Holland recently wrapped production on Paramount Picture’s “Selma”. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine. (You can unsubscribe anytime)Constant Contact…

Michael ‘The Club Kid Killer’ Alig Recovering In Harlem

When notorious ’90s party promoter and former heroin addict Michael Alig, 48, aka “The Club Kid Killer,” was freed in May after serving 17 years for the grisly killing of his drug-dealer friend, Angel Melendez, he reflected on his crime in the pages of The Post. Now, three months later, he writes about his sober…

Harlem Should Be New York’s Next New Tech Hub

CNN reports when people think of the fast-growing New York City tech scene, they think Silicon Alley in the posh neighborhoods of lower Manhattan — not 125th Street. Become a Harlem Insider! Sign-Up for our Newsletter *Select list(s) to subscribe toHarlem World Magazine Example: Yes, I would like to receive emails from Harlem World Magazine.…