Cote D’Ivore Festival In Harlem

Obama, Crowley and Gates chat over beers

News

The black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him agreed to disagree and promised to talk again, a gracious conclusion to the first round of an eye-opening dialogue on race that allows President Barack Obama to get back to selling his health care plan to skeptical Americans.

Jay-Z at All Points West

Music

99 PROBLEMS

Mr. Carter headlines tonight’s All Points West show (also including Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend and The National) featuring Jersey-defying levels of insouciance and new diss tracks targeting Soulja Boy, Bruce Ratner and the cast of Grey’s Anatomy.

All Points West, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey, get tickets here

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Scheduled Events for Hue-Man Bookstore

CONGRATULATIONS TO US!

The Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe has been selected for the 2009 New York Award in the Book Stores category by the U.S. Commerce Association.

The US Commerce Association “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country.

WBLS Presents Our 35th Anniversary Concert Series!

August 15th, 2009
“”UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT
“Dancing In The Streets”
Honoring Vaughn Harper, Champaigne and Imhotep Gary Byrd

Sylvia’s Annual Community Free Breakfast

Friday, July 31st, 5:00 AM until 10:00 AM

Please come out and support and enjoy the atmosphere.

For more info please contact:

Tren’ness Woods-Black, Director of Marketing/ Special Events, Sylvia’s Restaurant, the Queen of Soulfood™
328 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY 10027, 212-996-0660 ext. 11 O., 212-427-6389 F., www.sylviasrestaurant.com

Life and Literary legacy of James Baldwin

Event

Good afternoon, Family, Friends and Colleagues,

As many of you know, I am an avid reader, and one on my muses, and inspiration is James Baldwin.

Attached you will find several documents inviting you and guests to an theatrical event that I am directing/producing and performing in, along with Mark Tuggle, Ronald De Suze, Metu Selassie, Lorenzo Murphy and sean360x.

On August 16, 2009, we will be paying tribute to the life and literary legacy of James Baldwin (1924-1987), and celebrating his 85th Birthday anniversary, with a special dedication to both Michael J. Jackson (1958-2009) and E. Lynn Harris (1955-2009).

Sound Off: What do you think?

Harlem World went out to see what you, Harlem residents and neighbors think about recent news surrounding President Obama and respected rapper, Nas.

Question: How do you feel about Obama’s plan for public health care?

(Left to Right)
Chelsea Birch, Harlem Resident
“I’m not against it at all. Some people need it. I support it. In his eyes he’s looking out for everyone, not just Black people.”

HW Intern Pick: Nine West Women’s Kentaro Gladiator Sandal

Shopping

From Jamila and Janel

With all of its straps and studs, the “Kentaro” Sandal from Nine West proves that there’s no such thing as “too much of a good thing.” A high-style approach to the on-trend gladiator, it also features a stacked heel that works with casual or dressier looks.

Harlem Arts Alliance Cultural Calendar

Now through Monday, August 31, 2009

New York International Latino Film Festival ‘I am Happy’ (‘Eu Sou Feliz’) Premier

This week the City is hosting the New York International Latino Film Festival. Soraya Umewaka is a documentary filmmaker from Tokyo. Upon winning Princeton’s Labouisse Fellowship in 2006 she went to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to make a documentary entitled ‘I am Happy’ on the creative culture that resides in the slums of Rio. Her prior documentary ‘Street Witness’ debuted at the Miami Film Festival with critical acclaim.

Clearview Cinemas (260 West 23rd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues)

Reel Sisters at Imagenation Film Festival

Marcus Garvey Park
DATE: August 10, 2009 · 7 pm

African Voices and Imagenation Film Festival present
an evening of music, poetry and film

Harlem jazz sensation Bill Saxton and poet Autumn Ashante will perform before the screenings!

E. Harlem Senator Olga Mendez dies

News

Olga Mendez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to a state legislature in the mainland United States has died in New York City. The former New York state senator was 84.

A nephew said Mendez died Wednesday morning at her East Harlem home. Erick Vazquez said she had been diagnosed with cancer.

Mendez was a state senator for more than two decades, from 1978 to 2004. She wielded tremendous political influence in the Hispanic community.

Republican-turned-independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Mendez helped him see the wisdom of reaching across partisan lines.

Mendez lost her seat after switching parties, from Democrat to Republican.

She was born in 1925 in the Puerto Rican city of Mayaguez, on the west coast of the U.S. island.

AP