Harlem native Gen. Colin Powell is asking Americans to consider their day off on Martin Luther Day a ‘day on’ instead…
…Powell announced the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s ‘Renew America Together’ initiative on Friday to take place on Jan. 19th. (Jan. 9)
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Harlem, which is often cited as major African-American cultural, business and historical center, is seeing a population boom that has helped it become more diverse. A study from the Census Bureau says that Harlem has had an influx of affluent,…
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President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration.
The president-elect has selected Steven Chu for energy secretary, Lisa Jackson for EPA administrator, Carol Browner as his energy “czar” and Nancy Sutley to lead the White [...]
Over the weekend, Yojimbot at The Origin of Species went on his annual Harlem Hawk Walk to check in on the avian community uptown. He has many wonderful pictures (some are in the gallery above), video, and observations here; Bloomingdale Village also has a great write-up.
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Garden of Dreams and Adam Graves Hand Out Winter Coats
On Thursday, December 4, kids from Harlem Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Service after school program received a warm visit from New York Ranger alumnus, Adam Graves. The former Stanley Cup champion, whose number 9 jersey was retired earlier this year, teamed up [...]
Inspired College Student Creates Non-profit Project Feed Me
Project Feed Me, a 100 percent non-profit organization founded by formerly homeless college student Patrick Alvarez, handed out 110 turkeys near The Children’s Aid Society in Harlem on Tuesday.
Grateful families began lining up at Dunlevy Milbank school on 118th street two days before Thanksgiving to pick up a [...]
Dawn’s early light brought hundreds of people to the community kitchen of West Harlem. WCBS reporter Marla Diamond was at New York City’s Community Kitchen of West Harlem talking with members of the community.
“Todays like Black Friday,” said Senior Director, Jessee Taylor, ”Out there on the street, the people that are lining up, it’s incredible.”
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In honor of National Adoption Month, Harlem Dowling West Side Center for Children and Family Services (HDWC) held its 2008 Award Dinner Gala at scenic Bridgewaters in lower Manhattan .
Richard Wright slept there. So did Claude McKay, Matthew Henson, George Washington Carver and Malcolm X.
Ralph Ellison waited tables there, Paul Robeson was discovered on its stage and Jackie Robinson coached basketball in the gym.
This bastion of black history is the Harlem Y.M.C.A., sometimes called the “living room of the Harlem Renaissance.” The 11-story brick [...]
At the Breast Cancer Site, every day is a chance to make a difference. It’s fast, free and easy – remembering to click is usually the hardest part!
Help make a difference in someone else’s life, make sure to click daily for the month of October. By clicking free mammogram’s are donated to an undeserved woman [...]
Hale House is no longer a home.
Seven years after the fabled Harlem charity for abandoned babies was rocked by scandal, Hale House has shuttered its residential program and is focusing its efforts – and dwindling dollars – on more traditional community services.
Gone is the orphanage for babies founded in 1969 by Mother Clara Hale, who [...]
On Thursday, November 6, in honor of national adoption month, Fox 5 weatherman Mike Woods will join HARLEM DOWLING West Side Center for Children and Family Service (HDWC) as host of its 2008 Award Dinner Gala. Themed “New Families, New Hope, New Possibilities,” this years celebratory affair will take place at Bridgewaters, 11 Fulton Street, [...]
The Purple Boot Initiative Open House 2008 at the Harlem Day Charter School in Harlem, NY with Founder and designer Etu Evans, Directors Marlon Ragland and Dante Jones and The visionary PBI boys.
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Photo credit by PBI photographer and mentor Derrick Salters.
“My son was everything to me!” a young Harlem mother sobbed in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday before being sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the 2-year-old boy’s bludgeoning murder.
Zahira Matos was only 20 years old and already the mother of three in 2004, when her drunken lesbian lover beat Yovany Tellez to [...]
I wish to express my sadness and disappointment with U.S. Representative Charles Rangel’s (D-Harlem) poor stewardship of the trust that the people of Harlem have for so long placed in him. For some, the first signs of Mr. Rangel’s moral and ethical deficiencies were manifested in the recent disclosures of his tax and housing improprieties [...]
Have you seen the street drawings by ”the chalk man”? He’s a Harlem elder with salt and pepper hair, and a gental manner. We usually see his work along Lenox Avenue in the mid-120th and 130th Streets. His drawings are filled with words of wisdom for both our youth and adults, bright pastel colors, accented with birds, clouds, and stars.
Lloyd Williams Chairman and CEO of Harlem Chamber of Commerce and New York City Comptroller William Thompson, Jr., will preside over the NASDAQ opening bell. NASDAQ Marketsite, at 4 Times Square, at 43rd Street & Broadway, at the Broadcast Studio, Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 9:30 am.
Harlem RBI Will Present the Farmers Market Featuring a Live Performance of “The Harlem Beat” On August 14
Harlem RBI , A 17- year- old youth development organization in East Harlem, will host a Farmers Market at 4-6 P.M on August 14th at Union Settlement on 104th Street and 2nd Avenue.
A thug named Mykul—all 6-foot-5-inches and 250 pounds of him—knocked me, a 5-foot-2, 120-pound “grammy” to three, down to the concrete. I was in front of St. Nick’s Pub, at 10:30 on a Monday night this past May, when he stole my handbag, a beautiful green snakeskin bag and all its contents, including more cash [...]
Career Gear, a grassroots non-profit organization, was founded in New York City in 1998 to promote the gainful employment and self-sufficiency of disadvantaged men who are actively seeking employment and ran by Harlemite and Executive Director John Sanful.
The police are investigating how the head of a black doll ended up on the rear antenna of an unmarked police car on patrol in Harlem on Tuesday night, the authorities said on Wednesday. The incident was reported to a police official by a New York state senator, Bill Perkins, who said that people had [...]
Public Input Sought on Ways to Improve Economic Well-Being of New Yorkers
Meetings Scheduled Across New York State
Governor David A. Paterson today announced that his Economic Security Cabinet will hold a series of Town Hall meetings throughout the State this summer to present its ideas for improving the economic wellbeing of low-income families and to get [...]
A disturbed young woman dangled herself from the roof of an East Harlem building yesterday morning before police hauled her in. Three times the barefoot woman hung by her arms from the precipice of 1878 Lexington Ave. as stunned onlookers gathered below.
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The first fundraiser for the Senator Chuck Allen III Scholarship Fund hosted by actor Cornelius Jones and chaired by Seth Andrew of the Democracy Prep Charter School took place at NBoutique in Harlem on Wednesday, June 11, 2008…
Hundreds of Harlem residents met last night to talk about the Memorial Day shooting spree that left six teens wounded.
REPORTER: Assemblyman Keith Wright says it will take engaged parents to break the cycle of teen gun violence…
Harlem Rev. Al Sharpton was arrested at the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday as he and hundreds of demonstrators blocked traffic to protest the acquittal of three detectives in the 50-bullet shooting of an unarmed black man on his wedding day.
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