New Orleans Archives - Harlem World Magazine

Mike’s World: The Lower Ninth Wards Self-Help Success Since Katrina Deserves External Investors

By Michael McQuillan Katrina’s flood silt soaks the portrait in the image below, but divide the picture in quadrants to absorb its details before you read on.Continue reading

HW Pick: “Guilty Until Proven Guilty,” The Issue Of Criminal Just-Us Reform

Guilty Until Proven Guilty explores Louisiana’s criminal justice system through the story of Tim Conerly, a young African-American man who was arrested in the wake of an armed robbery in New Orleans and waited 28 months for a trial for a crime he says he did not commit.Continue reading

Atlanta: The Fabulous Amiyah Scott And Others At GLAAD Atlanta Gala 2018

Amiyah Scott, transgender advocate and actress on FOX’s Star was honored at the 2018 GLAAD Atlanta Gala event on Friday, November 9, 2018 at The Estate.Continue reading

New Orleans: McDonald’s Honors With 365Black Awards

Several notable celebrities, community leaders and entertainers descended on the city of New Orleans once again to attend the 15th Annual McDonald's 365Black Awards, held today at the Ritz Carlton, New Orleans.

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah’s Stretch Music x Afro New Orleanian/Black Indian Music At Harlem Stage

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah returns with two nights of genre blind music that will Stretch jazz music’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass a range of cultural influences from his own native New Orleans to West Africa and the Caribbean. Continue reading

HW Pick: Regina Hall And Jada Pinkett Smith Talk New “Girls Trip,” On Build (Video)

When four lifelong friends—Regina Hall, Tiffany Haddish, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah—travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.Continue reading

FX Networks Previewed New Drama Series “Snowfall” At Essence Festival 2017

FX Networks previewed their new drama series "Snowfall" for an intimate group of press and influencers on Saturday. Co-creator John Singleton made brief remarks; Q93 radio host Wild Wayne intro'd the screening.Continue reading

Check Out The Wacky That’s Not My Arm, “Girls Trip” Film Coming To Harlem Teaser (2017)

When four lifelong friends—Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish—travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival - what happens at the festival stays at the festival.Continue reading

Ferdinand ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton In Harlem, New York 1928 – 1935

Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton at home in Harlem, on the corner of some Street and some Avenue in Harlem. Morton was American ragtime royalty, "considered best regarded pianists in the Storyville District," he was an early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who was born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, started his career and Jazz in 1902 in New Orleans, Louisiana.Continue reading

Harlem Man Puff Daddy Leads Stars At 2016 Essence Festival (Photos)

Here are some great photographs from the three-day event that was live streamed with Harlem man Puff Daddy (above) performing in a big puffy oversized Yankee jacket and pin stripes at the Superdome as part of the Essence Festival 2016 in New Orleans, LA. Continue reading

HW Pick: 2016 Essence Festival New Orleans Live Stream (Live)

Check out the final night, of this three day event live stream with Ciara, Kim Fields, Puff Daddy, Judith Hill, Kendrick Lamarr, and many more from the Superdome as part of the Essence Festival 2016 in New Orleans, LA. Continue reading