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NY Forward Loan Fund For New York State Small Businesses From Harlem To Hollis

New York Forward Loan Fund (NYFLF) is a new economic recovery loan program aimed at supporting New York State small businesses, nonprofits and small landlords as they reopen after the COVID-19 outbreak and NYS on PAUSE.Continue reading

The COVID Crisis: IABD To Provide Emergency Relief Funds To Black Dance Community

In response to the COVID-19 disruption, the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD), and a team of other organizations have taken action to meet the needs of the Black Dance community. Continue reading

Harlem’s Apollo Theater Launches New Commissioning Initiative Dedicated To Diverse Artists

The Apollo Theater announced today its first multi-work commissioning initiative dedicated to the creation of a diverse, 21st-century American performing arts canon, Apollo New Works. Continue reading

de Blasio And Abeywardena NYC To Be First City To Publish Global Sustainable Development Goals

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Penny Abeywardena today announced that New York City will publish its progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.Continue reading

De Blasio Taps Harlemites And Others To Consider Controversial Statues’

NY Daily News reports that Mayor de Blasio named a committee Friday to address how the city should deal with the sordid histories of hundreds of statues, plaques, obelisks and other memorials scattered on city property across the five boroughs.Continue reading

“Family Pictures USA” Launches A Healing Movement For Our Conflicted World

With seed funding from the Ford Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, and the National Minority Consortium, we completed primary production on our pilot episode for "Family Pictures USA"! Continue reading

Harlem’s Columbia Acquires Archives Of DTH’s Arthur Mitchell

When Arthur Mitchell was contemplating where his archives should go, he thought about where he grew up and later, with Karel Shook, formed the Dance Theater of Harlem.Continue reading