BID ON CULTURE: Request for Design Proposals

Arts

Request for Proposal Overview: This request is for designs for banners as part of the BID ON CULTURE project to reflect the cultural vitality of Harlem along its primary commercial thoroughfare, the famed 125^th Street. 

Ollie’s files for bankruptcy

After being found in violation of labor laws earlier this year, Ollie’s Noodle Shop & Grille filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday. The restaurant chain, which filed under the corporate entity of 1160 Third Avenue Food Service Inc., listed assets of $563,000 and liabilities totaling more than $3.7 million.

Rangel and Commissioner Coalition One Hundred Black Women

Virginia Montague, President of the New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women, welcomes guest speakers Congressman Charles Rangel and New York State Commissioner of Health Richard Daines, M.D.,

Healthy cooking event in Harlem

Touro College’s Project Aspire and The Palette Fund Host “Healthy Home Cooking Night”

Touro College’s Project Aspire and The Palette Fund instructed Harlem’s P.S. 197 students, grades pre-kindergarten to 2nd grade, and their parents, how to prepare healthy meals using whole foods at “Healthy Home Cooking Night”. 

Create Your Harlem AIDS Blanket “Patch” Today

“…Blacks account for 48.8% and Latinos for 34.7% of all persons diagnosed with HIV/AIDS” – NYC HIV/AIDS Surveillance and Epidemiology Reports (April 2009)

The Harlem AIDS Blanket is an out-of-school-time art education project aimed at raising awareness and strengthening public support of HIV/AIDS in Harlem and beyond.

Rangel Votes to Invest in Business

Congressman Charles B. Rangel voted Wednesday to create American jobs by investing in small businesses and rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. The Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Act (HR 4849) will create new small business and construction jobs, spur private sector investment and hiring, and help rebuild infrastructure across the country.

National Black Writers’ Conference at BAM

Celebrating over 25 years of history since its inception in 1986 under the visionary leadership of John Oliver Killens, the National Black Writers’ Conference assembles some of the brightest minds and finest pens in literature, who discuss the state of black literature and its future trends.

Personal Problems at BAM

A pioneering video work, which premiered at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and screened on WNYC in New York, is self-described by writer Ishamel Reed as a “avant-garde soap opera…which permitted black producers, a black director, black actors, and black writers and actresses to have control over their work.”

HS Students at Touro College in Harlem

Nadira Jackson, 17, far right, a student at George Washington High School in Washington Heights, N.Y., participated in an educational computer game on Monday, March 22, as part of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF) program.

A Week of Entrepreneurs at Project Enterprise

On March 19^th, 2010, Project Enterprise closed out a week of networking and informative workshops for small business owners from all over New York City. 

Exclusive: National Hip Hop Museum In Harlem

News

During a discussion yesterday on the The Danny Tisdale show on Harlem World Radio, Danny Tisdale spoke to a representative from the National Hip Hop Museum who announced that the museum will be located in Harlem. As of the recording of the show a location had not been found. Before the interview a location by representative of the museum had not found a location for the museum.

You can listen to the entire show on Harlem World Magazine Community site.

Just In: Adam Clayton Powell IV has been acquitted

New York state Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV has been acquitted of driving while intoxicated on a Manhattan highway but convicted of a related traffic violation.

Jurors Thursday found the Democrat guilty of driving while his ability was impaired by alcohol. But they cleared him of the more serious DWI charge.

A Manhattan Criminal Court judge immediately sentenced Powell to a $300 fine and a 90-day license suspension.

He also ordered him to complete an anti-drunken driving program.

Powell said he wasn’t drunk, and police had no cause to stop him on March 6, 2008.

Police said he was driving erratically and a roadside breath test showed he had been drinking, though it registered less than the legal limit for DWI.

Prosecutors said Powell refused a more precise test at a police precinct.