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MONDAY: Harlem Candidates Forum and Debate for September 14 Primary Election
On Monday, August 23rd from 6 pm to 9 pm, there will be Candidates Forum and Debate moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Les Payne at Convent Avenue Baptist Church (420 West 145th Street) in Harlem. Rep. Charles Rangel, State Senator Bill Perkins, State Assembly Member Keith L.T. Wright will debate their challengers (candidates running [...]
Harlem Week Events for Saturday and Sunday
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14th, 9:00 AM – 8:00 PM “Summer in the City” Part I • 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM NY City “Children’s Festival” On W.135th St. btwn. Malcolm X & A.C. Powell Jr. Blvds. Featuring Excerpts from Disney musicals, games, arts & crafts, live music and dance, healthy eating and living exhibits, open houses [...]
Film: Freedom Riders
Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s latest documentary FREEDOM RIDERS, is the powerful, harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for simply traveling together on buses [...]
FILM: Neshoba — The Price of Freedom
It was June 1964, the beginning of the Freedom Summer — the height of the Civil Rights movement — when a mob of Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi murdered three civil rights workers: two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi. It took 41 years for the state to convict one man, Edgar [...]
Harlem Pride Invites You to Fire Island Black Out
The mission of Harlem Pride is to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Same Gender Loving pride in Harlem and to provide opportunities for networking and communication among its LGBT and SGL organizations and community members. This weekend, they invite the Harlem community to join them at The Fire Island Black Out (FIBO) and is [...]
Triumph Group and Three Kings Party at Element Night Club
Join Triumph and threeKINGS for “Next Chapter” as they celebrate new beginnings, career transitions and progression of life. Join them as they take over downtown at Element Night Club. 2 Floors of Partying 2 DJ’s Ladies Free w RSVP B4 11:30pm Guys Reduced Table Service Available (First Come First Serve Basis) Special Bday Celebration for [...]
Angela Johnson “On the Sofa with Joseph Riley Land” at Billie’s Black in Harlem
(click here to view details) You’re invited to attend the launch of “On the sofa with Joseph Riley Land.” The event, co-sponsored by Billie’s Black (where it will take place) and Pollen Nation, will be an Oprah-style sit down interview with renowned entertainer Angela Johnson. This will be part listening party, part interview, so come [...]
Rooftop Film: Waste Land at Museo del Barrio in Harlem
Lucy Walker’s Sundance award winning documentary Waste Land follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, who has pieces in museums worldwide (including El Museo del Barrio), on this daring project. Arriving at a landfill, Muniz discovers that the workers are welcoming, engaging, bright people. One man has opened a library using the discarded books he’s found, while [...]
Charles Rangel — “Don’t Leave Me Swinging in the Wind”
A combative Rep. Charles Rangel told the House on Tuesday he’s not resigning despite 13 charges of wrongdoing and demanded the ethics committee not leave him “swinging in the wind.” Rangel, who is 80, spoke without notes in an extraordinary, often emotional 37-minute speech that defied his lawyers’ advice to keep quiet about his case. [...]
VIDEO: Charles Rangel’s House Floor Speech on Ethics Charges
Earlier today, Harlem’s 19 term Congressman, Charles Rangel demanded the right to be heard on the floor of the House of Representatives. He is currently facing an Ethics Committee trial and has rejected the advice given by some to accept a plea agreement. According to CSPAN, “the Congressman apologized for any embarrassment he has caused [...]
New York Urban League Young Professionals Back to School Fundraiser
Join the New York Urban League Young Professionals and Share and Share Alike in support of their 5th Annual Back to School supplies drive. For more info and to RSVP, click here. Can’t attend but still want to donate? Visit them at www.nyul.org/backpack
The Cross of Redemption — James Baldwin’s Newly Collected Essays
From Newsweek: The Fire This Time — Baldwin’s newly collected essays pack as much firepower as ever. When I play reverse time travel and imagine historical figures turning up today (what would Ben Franklin say about the iPad? Or Jane Austen about Jersey Shore?, etc.), James Baldwin’s name comes to mind. The essayist and novelist [...]
Black Girl Project — Film Screening and Discussion
Brooklyn-based educator and filmmaker, Aiesha Turman, will screen her first feature, The Black Girl Project at the Spike Lee Screening Room on the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. “In a culture where Black women and girls are either praised for their saintly accomplishments, stripping them of any other character except that of a martyr [...]
The Speakeasy at 1220 Fifth Avenue in Harlem
The Museum of the City of New York presents The Speakeasy at 1220 Fifth Avenue on Wednesday nights, 6 – 9 p.m. until the end of August. Enjoy cocktails on the Fifth Avenue terrace and a special installation on the fictional 1920s character “Flapper Jane.” Visitors will be treated to tours of current exhibitions. Admission [...]
A Look Back — Harlem’s H&M Celebrates Its Red Carpet Re-Opening in Grand Style
Last week H&M, Hennes & Mauritz, rolled out the red carpet to celebrate the grand re-opening of their flagship Harlem store. The store first opened in 2002 as a part of “Harlem Center”, a group of retail establishments that were first to open in the now “revitalized” Harlem. Through out the evening the H&M staff [...]
