HW Pick: Harlem’s Teyana Taylor , Her Room (Remix)

HW Pick: Harlme’s Teyana Taylor , Her Room (Rem…, posted with vodpod

Charles White’s Work Auctioned At The Swann Galleries

An exceptional item that will be featured in Swann’s October 6 sale of African-American Fine Art: Work, the first large-scale drawing from Charles White’s important 1950s period to come to auction.

Swizz Beatz: The Cool Man Sitting Pretty Behind The Music (update)

He was born Kasseem Dean in the South Bronx and starting around 1998, began making music under the moniker Swizz Beatz as the in-house producer for hip-hop’s notorious Ruff Ryders camp.

Harlem’s Kemba Woods Goes To The Charlotte Bobcats (update)

By Marc “The Raz” Rasbury

There I was sitting patiently for the Knicks and Nets to make their respective selections   last Thursday. I was hoping that the Knicks would grab one of the power forwards that might be available at 17 and I was hoping that the Nets could just get a serviceable player. To my initial dismay, the Knicks opted for backcourt help in Iman Shumpter. The Nets, on the other hand, might have come away with the evening’s best overall success.

Harlem Football Star Killed After High School Graduation

A star high school football player from East Harlem’s Jefferson Houses was stabbed to death during a fight in a Bronx parking lot on Tuesday, just hours after the 19-year-old graduated, police said.

2nd Annual Summer Organ Series at Riverside Church

Continuing its commitment to provide diverse and culturally rich programs to the community, The Riverside Church is presenting its Annual Summer Series of Organ Recitals—featuring five concerts throughout the summer—every Tuesday, July 5 to August 2 at 7:00 p.m. in the Nave, 490 Riverside Drive (bet. 120^th & 122^nd St.), Morningside Heights.

Soul Train Pulls Into the Smithsonian Collection

Soul Train items will be added to Smithsonian collection. Jacqueline Trescott of the Washington Post is reporting that the National Museum of African American History and Culture has decided to collect items from Soul Train, the “hippest trip in America.” 

Top 5 Tips to Build Wealth and Success Like Diddy

Warren Buffett is worth $45 billion. That wealth isn’t only a factor of savvy investing and good business — the “Oracle of Omaha” is also known as a penny pincher. Buffett still lives in the same Omaha, Neb., home he bought in 1958 for $31,500.

Follow his frugal formula, and you too may wind up with a lot more money than you ever dreamed.

The “BID on Culture” Black Music Month Events Calendar

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It’s NYC Restaurant Week This Summer 2011

NYC & Company, New York City’s marketing, tourism and partnership organization, today announced that NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2011-the City’s original culinary celebration and world’s first Restaurant Week-will feature more than 320 restaurants.  The two-week event will take place July 11-24, Mondays through Fridays; Saturdays are excluded and Sundays are optional. 

Harlem World Magazine Salutes National HIV Testing Day!

“Women in Harlem are infected with AIDS virus 10 times the rate for men.“

We would like to thank all the hard working organizations, individuals and others who have been fighting AIDS/HIV in and out of Harlem.

“Predatory” Harlem Developer Agrees to Long-Term Affordable Housing

A developer looking to build housing in East Harlem has agreed to enter four other area properties into long-term affordability agreements in exchange for a letter of support from Community Board 11 for the new project.