‘Drop Me Off In Harlem’, by Duke and Louis

Music

From margaretgloria

We checked out the movie Harlem Nights last night. At the end of the movie was this great song

“Drop Me Off In Harlem” by two greats Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Enjoy!

Harlem Morning, 2009

A Harlem morning on December 31st, 2009 at 11 am.

Happy New year!

Salters Scene: Atomic Wings Harlem Turns One

 

Jamal Waldron, De’Von Christopher Johnson and Trevor Sinclair

De’Von Christopher Johnson, Trevor Sinclair and Jamal Waldron started out years ago investing in the stock market as members of an investment club.  While other members of their investment club moved on, they pushed on and last year started their own business: Atomic Wings Harlem.

On Sunday December 13, 2009, Atomic Wings Harlem, located on the corner of 113^th Street and Frederick Douglas avenue, celebrated its one year anniversary with a  public celebration. 

The owners took this opportunity to say thank you to the community for their support.  Guests enjoyed music, food and artwork on display by Harlem artist James Shields.  Additionally, Atomic Wings Harlem kicked off their internal mentorship program which will pair employees under the age of 18 with an owner or community leader once a week.

James Shields' art work

Now a Harlem celebration would not be complete without an appearance by Community Liaison Leslie Wyche.  Among others Nina Flowers from the Apollo, artist Gwendolyn Black, John Jay College’s William A. Allen, MS, MPA and artist/producer Maxine McCrey stopped in to help Atomic Wings Harlem celebrate.

If you haven’t been to or order from Atomic Wings Harlem, De’Von Christopher Johnson says come on by and try us out.  It’s a good experience.

For more information about Atomic Wings log onto http://www.atomicwings.com/

To see more pics from this event checkout  the HWMag gallery.

The Revolution Will Be Mapped

News

GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like.

To get to the headquarters of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, visitors have to navigate a lengthy dirt road past white picket fences, grazing horses and a variety of outbuildings in various stages of disrepair. Set in a one-room former Primitive Baptist church on a 43-acre spread in rural Orange County, N.C., the institute holds a collection of old, ergonomically incorrect wooden desks and metal filing cabinets. The only signs of modernity are computers atop the desks.

Institute founders Allan Parnell and Ann Joyner, who live in a modest country house a stone’s throw from this office, are dressed in their everyday summer attire, T-shirts and shorts.

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When Will People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”?

Movie Review

Reader submission

Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it’s about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. Spoilers…

Whether Avatar is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it’s undeniable that the film – like alien apartheid flick District 9, released earlier this year – is emphatically a fantasy about race. Specifically, it’s a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people. Avatar and scifi films like it give us the opportunity to answer the question: What do white people fantasize about when they fantasize about racial identity?

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Get the Harlem Nights DVD at Harlem World Shop

Get the Harlem Nights DVD with Eddie Murphy and Ricard Pryor. A 1930′s nightclub owner has a scheme to keep mobsters from muscling in on his Harlem hot spot.

Usher gives $500 checks in Harlem

R&B superstar Usher is giving away $500 checks to some of the city’s brightest kids so they can make a change on the toughest streets in town.

The pop sensation has doled out five grants citywide since September to youngsters in Harlem and the Bronx for a shot at neighborhood glory. Kids in Queens and Brooklyn are also eligible to apply for the youth grants.

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Creating A World full of Michelle Obama’s

Event

Please join us for the screening of the Full Extended Version of Heart Road..

Creating A World full of Michelle Obama’s

an Abstrak Salaam Film

starring GirlSpirit WomenSong’s Harriet’s Heart

Sunday January 10th 2010 2-4pm

@

Maysles Cinema, 343 Malcolm X Boulevard near 127th Street Harlem NYC

Donation $20

Includes Film, Refreshments & Post Film Q & A with Harriet’s Heart before they go back to their colleges/universities for part 2 of freshman year!

Proceeds benefit The GSWS Inc. Harriet’s Heart College Scholarship Fund

Please RSVP to Salaam@JahaInternational.com

For more info contact AbstrakV@gmail.com

Green Resolutions for 2010

Green

Resolving to be green in 2010? We’ll start you off with nine green New Year’s resolutions.

I resolve to…

1. Give second lives a chance I will only buy paper towels, tissue, toilet paper and office paper made from post-consumer recycled content.

Walter’s World: NuDance 2009

Theater

By Walter Rutledge

NuDance 2009 Dance Festival was presented, December 11through 13 at the Riverside Theatre. The theatre located on the ground floor of the historic Riverside Church has a long and established tradition of showcasing new, original and innovative choreography. This year the three-day dance series highlighted the choreography of nine emerging and mid-career dance makers and approximately seventy outstanding performers.

Walter’s World: Baking With Love

By Walter Rutledge

When you think of cheesecake does your mind picture sweet potato, rum raisin, banana pudding, or red velvet? Well what your mind may not be able to conceive your palette can readily experience. Annie Mae Cheesecake and Moore is a pastry lover’s dream come true.

Dinkins, Paterson, Rangel Discuss Sutton on NY1

In a rare group interview, the remaining members of the so-called “Gang of Four” appeared Monday night on NY1′s “Road To City Hall” where they discussed the legacy of Harlem politician and entrepreneur Percy Sutton who died over the weekend at the age of 89. NY1′s Michael Scotto filed the following report.

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Former Mayor David Dinkins, Congressman Charles Rangel and Former New York Secretary of State Basil Paterson lived their political lives alongside Percy Sutton. And without him, they say, their careers might not have shaped up the way they did.