The NY State Summer Stage in Harlem returns this year every Thursday through August 25 at the NYS Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building, located at the 163 West 125th Street Plaza. Its August calendar: August 4–the African Culture Night, August 11–R&B Night, August 18–African Cuban Night, August 25–Gospel Night with Hezekiah Walker and other […]readmore
By Lloyd Williams – President, The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce As the great poet Langston Hughes once said, “As goes Harlem, so goes Black America”. With that in mind, it is important that we play close attention to the fact that the venerable Charles Rangel will, at the end of this year, be leaving office after […]readmore
Distinguished New Yorkers Honor a College with History of Teaching How to Serve Others Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) celebrated its founding with a 50th Anniversary Gala on Thursday, October 23 at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Themed “Amplify the Dream”, the gala highlighted the school’s dynamic history. All proceeds will benefit MCNY’s supportive […]readmore
Tomorrow, February 14, 10:00am, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will present The Loving Story, the painful, at times uplifting but riveting-to-the-end documentary that follows an interracial couple’s quest to live their lives peacefully as they conquer hurdles and attempt to avoid the minefields of the harrowing Civil Rights era. For a different […]readmore
Rally to Save Brooklyn Healthcare Thursday, December 19, 2013 – 4pm Join patients, community members, clergy and state and local elected leaders to stop hospital closures in Brooklyn 633 3rd Ave. (b/w 40th & 41st Sts.) Sponsors: 1199SEIU, NYSNA, Interfaith Medical Center Community Advisory Board, IM Foundation Handel’s Messiah Presentation Saturday, December 21, 2013 […]readmore
December 5 6p: Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Black Power TV. Join Black Power TV author Devorah Heitner as she discusses the rise of African-American public television: New York’s Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston’s Say Brother, as well as Black America’s Soul! and Black Journal. Her special guest will be Madeline Anderson. Schomburg. Call for hours. […]readmore
November 23 9a-2p: FREE Practice SAT Test .Find out where you stand! The NAACP New York State Youth & College Division & The Princeton Review Foundation Presents: Want to take a practice SAT without it counting towards college admissions? After the test students will receive a detailed score report that gives a detailed score breakdown […]readmore
Saturday, November 24, 2013 4p-5:30p: Join Morgan Powell, the writer, landscape designer and founder of Bronx River Sankofa, for a tour through Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Starting location: The India Street exit of the Greenpoint Ave. station on the G train line. Sunday, December 8th, 2013 Free Family Event: 2pm on “Everything Is A Part Of Everything!” […]readmore
