Souleo: Stax Records Book Explores ssues of race
Stax Records was more than a music machine releasing hits by the likes of Otis Redding and The Staple Singers.
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Walter’s World: Ballet Hispanico Returns To the Apollo Theater (with video)
By Walter Rutledge Ballet Hispanico returns for a third season to Harlem’s Legendary Apollo Theater, 253 W. 125th Street, on Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 7:30pm.
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.
Fats Waller On The Keys In Harlem
Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an influential jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer, whose innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano, and whose best-known compositions, “Ain’t Misbehavin’” and “Honeysuckle Rose”, were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame posthumously, in…
Marcus Garvey In His Harlem Office, 1914
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).
Souleo: Celebrated Writer, Ntozake Shange Debuts New Work
In her private residence playwright, Ntozake Shange is lost in her own world: one made up of words, rhythm and recovery.
Harlem Bette Midle And Michael Bloomberg in The Thicke
As one of the honorees at Harlem resident Bette Midler’s annual Hulaween gala on Thursday, Michael Bloomberg was obligated to explain his costume.
Boo at the Apollo for Halloween – Amateur Night Finals
On Wednesday, October 31st, the place known for booing will celebrate the spookiest night of the year with the final showdown of the 2012 Amateur Night season – Super Top Dog.
Walter’s World: Philadanco at the Joyce
By Walter Rutledge The Philadelphia Dance Company, better know by its acronym Philadanco, concluded their New York season at the Joyce Theater on Sunday October 7. During the six day run the company presented four ensemble works by four African American choreographers. The works, which spanned over forty years, offered an insightful and entertaining glimpse…
Dining With Miss Lil: Live Cook Off for Teens in Harlem
Three weeks ago in the journal Pediatrics, a federal study stated that type 2 diabetes, and pre diabetes rates are soaring among American teens.
The Apollo’s Chiquita Renee “Kiki” Shepard (video)
Chiquita Renee “Kiki” Shepard (born July 15, 1951) is an American television host, best known as the longtime co-host of It’s Showtime at the Apollo.
Reginald E. Gilliam, Jr., Passes
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.
Canada Lee Born in Harlem (video)
Lee was born as ‘Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata on March 3, 1907 in Harem, New York City. He was raised by his West Indian parents in Harlem, NY.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. in Harlem
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., National Hero of Jamaica (August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940),
Harlem’s Toccara Jones ‘The Ultimate Merger’
Toccara Jones, the vivacious and voluptuous fashion model and television personality Harlem resident, takes on the challenge of a lifetime when she puts her heart and soul into the search for her perfect mate as the bachelorette in the return of TV One’s popular reality series, The Ultimate Merger, premiering Thursday, August 4 at 9…