Harlem’s Hubert Harrison’s Call To Protest The Unamerican Acts Of The Tulsa Massacre
By Jeffrey Perry
One hundred years ago St. Croix-born, Harlem-based, Hubert Harrison, 1883-1927, “the father of Harlem radicalism.” Continue reading
NYABJ Condemns NY Times For Offensive Op-ed Chapter To Hold Virtual Town Hall Meeting
The New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) condemns The New York Times for publishing June 3, 2020, op-ed written by Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, who called for a military response to protests.Continue reading
The COVID Crisis: Nearly 2,500 Deaths Reported In Nursing Homes From Harlem To Hollywood
New York authorities say nearly 2,500 people have died of the coronavirus at nursing homes in the state.Continue reading
NY Times Staffer Steps Down After Epstein Harlem Cultural Center Donation Ask Is Revealed
A former New York Times reporter was ousted from the publication after asking convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to make a $30,000 charitable donation, NPR reported Thursday.Continue reading
An All-New “Iyanla: Fix My Life” With Hot Boy Turk And Wife
Sitting at home in Harlem, you may want to check out the all-new episodes of "Iyanla: Fix My Life," hosted by six-time New York Times bestselling author, spiritual life coach and executive producer Iyanla Vanzant.Continue reading
Funds For MTA In Harlem Not Clear Under New $1 Billion Trump Infrastructure Plan
NY1 reports that the future of the Second Avenue subway could be in jeopardy under President Donald Trump's new $1 trillion infrastructure plan.Continue reading
HW Pick: What The Data Really Says About Police And Racial Bias
In an alarming that reaches from Harlem to Hollywood is a story written by Kia Makarechi for Vanity Fair Magazine reports that as the nation reels from a series of high-profile fatal shootings of black men by police officers, many have decried the lack of readily available data on how racial bias factors into American policing. Continue reading
Upper West Side Landmarked Theater Retail Conversion Moves Forward
Last fall, the New York Times broke the news that the landmarked Metro Theater on the Upper West Side would become a Planet Fitness. Now applications have officially been filed to convert the 1930s Art Deco theater at 2626 Broadway into retail.Continue reading
How To Improve Your ‘Brand’ This Year In Harlem
Perhaps more than in any other time in history, in 2016, your name is your brand, says Pamela J. Green, a business and branding expert.Continue reading
Rectors To Claremont Inn, Harlem, NY 1903-1904 (video)
The opening was filmed in front of Rector's Lobster Palace at Broadway between 43rd & 44th Streets.This party is on their way to the Claremont Inn on Riverside Drive, Harlem, New York in 1908.Continue reading
How Harlem Tried To Save The Caged Man In The Bronx Zoo
The black clergymen who had been summoned to Harlem’s Mount Olivet Baptist Church for an emergency meeting on the morning of Monday 10 September 1906, arrived in a state of outrage.Continue reading
The Hotness: Black Power Without Black Women Is Weak
By Nicole Moore
When most people think about Malcolm X they immediately think of Black manhood leading to associations of Black power tied exclusively to the work of Black men.Continue reading
HW Pick: Rhiannon Giddens At The Town Hall
It was near the close of the first half of the T Bone Burnett–curated, September 2013 Another Day, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall—a celebration of the early ’60s folk revival that had inspired the Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis—when an extraordinary star-is-born moment occurred and singer Rhiannon Giddens, best known as a member of the Grammy–winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, indisputably stole the show. Continue reading
