Dick Parsons, Captain Harlem To The Rescue

We just read a great article at Bloomberg Business Week about the 6 foot 4, Harlem jazz lover, wine aficionado and charmer Dick Parsons. Parson is not a Harlemite, but he has worked as a great Harlem ambassador saving more Harlem institutions then your average Harlem jazz lover.

Widest Income Inequality Gap Ever (Video)

The U.S. now has the greatest disparity between the rich and the poor within Western industrialized countries, new Census data show. Timothy Noah of Slate magazine and Howard University professor Roderick Harrison looks at the growing income gap in America.

Pitches for Breakfast With Rochelle Hill

On March 26 Pitches for Breakfast, an open mic forum for business and professional women of Pan-African descent (African, African American, Caribbean, and Latino). Attendees and participants will enjoy breakfast and network with smart people that are looking for ways to grow their career or business.

Slave’s Daughter Has ’119th Birthday Party’

This ‘great-great-great-great grandmother’ claims to have lived through three centuries and her family believe she could be the oldest person in the world.

Cope2′s New Backpacks At Atmos In Harlem

We received an e-mail from marketing guru Mikey Rox at Paper Rox Scissors about another great event at Atmos with the folks at Sprayground. Sprayground was founded by Eddie Shabot and David Ben-David who’s launching a new line of graf-urb inspired backpacks. We like the Cope backpack, inspired by the iconic tag of the Bronx born,  …

Women’s History Month: Debi B. Jackson’s ‘My Feet Travel,’

Debi B. Jackson, and friends on March 7, 2011 at celebrated the opening of her show “My Feet Travel,” at the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Office Building Art Gallery in commemoration of Women’s History Month.

Walter’s World: nathantrice/RITUALS

By Walter Rutledge

Nathan Trice/ RITUALS project by project dance theater presented 2011 Recognizing Women Project, March 3- 6 at the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts located on the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. The company consisted entirely of women; the only male performer was Trice who played himself. The evening was an intimate and personal look into Trice’s own healing process following the death of his mother.

Jazz vs. Racism By Greg Thomas

In the brief time that I’ve been posting blog entries to Integral Post, rarely have I explicitly discussed the issue of race, which, it seems to me, is a blindspot of the Integral community. Yet I intend, more and more, to visit the theme of race and view it through an Integral lens.

‘Dreams’ By Saun”Poet”

Dreams do come true they really do. Where do we begin and where will we end?

If I were a mere drop of rain I would hope to fall upon a brightly colored flower disperse myself across the beauty of its color.

Gentlemen’s Pampering/Grooming Day!

YOU ARE INVITED TO SIT BACK AND RELAX

THIS SUNDAY MARCH 27^th, 2011 2:00pm-6:00pm

&

PRESENT

 

“Lazy Sun-Daze”

The American Apothecary Edition

The World’s Longest Living Married Couple!

Harlem couples, do you need a renaissance in your relationship? Meet Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher of North Carolina. They have been married 85 years (86 in May 2011) and hold the Guinness World Record for the longest marriage of a living couple and get this…

Elizabeth Taylor Passes At 79 (Video)

Elizabeth Taylor, the Lena Horne look-alike violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour