Hazel Dukes Archives - Harlem World Magazine

Seitu’s World: National Action Network Honors George Floyd On Anniversary Of Death In Harlem

Photographs by Seitu Oronde On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, Seitu attended The National Action Network is honoring the first anniversary of the death of George Floyd at the National Action Network in Harlem.Continue reading

Seitu’s World: Harlemites Respond To The Verdict In The George Floyd Case In Harlem

Photographs by Seitu Oronde On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, Seitu attended the celebration of the verdict in the George Floyd case on 125th Street in front of the State Office Building in Harlem, NY.Continue reading

Seitu’s World: It Was Legendary Hazel Dukes Birthday At National Action Network In Harlem

Photographs by Seitu Oronde On Saturday, March 20, 2019, Seitu attended the birthday celebration for NAACP president legendary Hazel Dukes at the National Action Network in Harlem.Continue reading

AARP, Organizations Of Color Urge Overdue Boost In NYS Funding For Non-Parent Relatives Raising Children

Non-parent relatives raising children in New York – disproportionately African American and mostly grandparents – face multiple disparities while performing an already tough task.Continue reading

Harlem’s Senator Benjamin And Others Introduce Legislation To Address Trauma In Prisons

Today, Senator Brian A. Benjamin and Assemblymember Kimberly Jean-Pierre introduced the Post-traumatic prison disorder Shawanna W76337 act.Continue reading

Community Stakeholders, Electeds And Others Join The NAACP’s Call Not To Reopen NYC Schools

Dear Mayor de Blasio: The NAACP New York State Conference of Branches has sent you and the Chancellor of Education Dr. Richard Carranza several letters since the beginning of June, 2020.Continue reading

Adriano Espaillat, Attorney General James, Hazel Dukes, Brian Benjamin And Others Celebrate Jerry Migdol’s 70th

An exuberant crowd that included NYS Attorney General Tish James, Congressman Adriano Espaillat, State Senators Brian Benjamin and Robert Jackson, Continue reading

Op-Ed: What Makes Social Protest Effective? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide Seeking Answers (Updated)

By Michael McQuillan In November 1969 I with classmates at the Bronx High School of Science chipped in for a rickety school bus so we could march against the Vietnam War in Washington. Continue reading

West Harlem Group Assistance To Honor Community Leaders

West Harlem Group Assistance, Inc. (WHGA), a leading community based development corporation, will be hosting its annual awards gala on October 26^th 2017, to celebrate leaders who have impacted the development of the West Harlem community and beyond.Continue reading

Dr. Hazel Dukes At Touro College 10th Anniversary Gala At The Schomburg In Harlem

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) is holding a Tenth Anniversary Gala on December 6, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Continue reading

The Greater Harlem Chamber Of Commerce Celebrates Its 120th Anniversary

The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, originally incorporated as the Harlem Board of Trade on October 3, 1896, is the longest continual business organization in upper Manhattan and will celebrate this anniversary with a gala reception at Harlem Hospital’s Muriel Pavilion. Continue reading

Rangel And Community Leaders Wear Orange To Call An End To Gun Violence

Harlem Congressman Charles B. Rangel, who represents New York’s 13th Congressional District of New York that includes Harlem (Upper Manhattan) and parts of the Bronx, joined New York State Assemblyman Keith Wright and leaders of the Harlem community to host a Wear Orange rally.Continue reading

Black Votes Matter PAC To Maximize Black Voter Turnout

Concerned that there may be dramatic drop off in the record turnout of black voters that propelled Barack Obama to the Presidency eight years ago, a group of veteran New York political and civil rights operatives launched the Black Votes Matter PAC. Continue reading

Op-Ed: Predatory Education and Subprime Schools – Hallmark of Success Academies

By Bertha Lewis

As alluded to in a recent DailyNews editorial there is, indeed, a wind blowing against New York’s charter school movement.Continue reading