Ethel Waters Archives - Harlem World Magazine

She Was A Harlem Owner Of The Largest African American Beauty Parlor In The World, Founder Of Freedom National Bank, And Wife Of Joe Louis

Rose Meta Morgan began a beauty empire in Harlem, NY, during the 1940s and quickly became a powerhouse in the field and a doyenne of African American high society.Continue reading

William G. Pomeroy Foundation Provides Grant To While We Are Still Here To Celebrate Harlem’s History

From Ethel Waters and Althea Gibson to Marcus Garvey and Langston Hughes, Harlem’s extraordinary historic legacy. Continue reading

Harlem’s Legendary Mayme Hatcher Johnson (Audio)

The legendary Mayme Hatcher Johnson was born in North Carolina, in 1915, and moved to Harlem, NY in 1938.Continue reading

History Of A Song, “Underneath The Harlem Moon,” By Harlem’s Mack Gordon (Videos)

This post has very little to do with authenticity, I’m afraid. It’s more about race, irony, and the way a song’s meaning changes over time. Continue reading

Harlem’s Music Scene From The Renaissance To Today’s Reinvention

By Bretton Love With a long history behind it, Harlem is a place that produced a wide range of musical genres and dancing styles that have become popular across the globe. Continue reading

Downtown Sings Uptown With Songs From Gay Harlem At The Kaufman Music Center

This unique event, features rarities, 21st century premieres, and well-known works by Harlem's Bessie Smith, Gladys Bentley, Billy Strayhorn, Porter Grainger and songs popularized by Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, and “Ma” Rainey.Continue reading

Albreta Hunter, Ethel Waters, ‘Ma’ Rainey And More Are The “Songs From Gay Harlem”

NYFOS premieres a fascinating new program called Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do: Songs from Gay Harlem, revealing the musical heart of a subculture within a subculture. Continue reading

Al “Hirschfeld’s Harlem,” A Rare Picture Window Into Harlem Renaissance

Now in paperback! Decades before the PBS documentaries, before Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Al Hirschfeld and many, many more went to Harlem.Continue reading

Dickie Wells Club, Harlem, New York, 1940-1950

Dickie Wells was called the Harlem Playboy, and his club originally built as a bowling alley Dickie Wells aka "Dickie's club" (above left photograph) was meant to be an off shoot of his reputation at 162 West 133rd Street at Seventh Avenue, in Harlem, NY, 1940-1950.Continue reading

She Was A Harlem Owner Of The Largest African American Beauty Parlor In The World, Founder Of Freedom National Bank, And Wife Of Joe Louis

William G. Pomeroy Foundation Provides Grant To While We Are Still Here To Celebrate Harlem’s History

Harlem’s Legendary Mayme Hatcher Johnson (Audio)

History Of A Song, “Underneath The Harlem Moon,” By Harlem’s Mack Gordon (Videos)

Harlem’s Music Scene From The Renaissance To Today’s Reinvention

Downtown Sings Uptown With Songs From Gay Harlem At The Kaufman Music Center

Albreta Hunter, Ethel Waters, ‘Ma’ Rainey And More Are The “Songs From Gay Harlem”

Al “Hirschfeld’s Harlem,” A Rare Picture Window Into Harlem Renaissance

Dickie Wells Club, Harlem, New York, 1940-1950

Harlem’s Norma “Queen Of Swing” Miller, 1919 – (Video)

Nora Holt “The Mama That Can’t Behave” In Harlem (warning)

Leonard Harper, Harlem, New York 1925

Harlem’s Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson