6-22 AFUWI AFUWI’s 26th Annual Awards Gala brims with seamless elegance! By Audrey J. Bernard Society Editor The American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) hosted its 26th Annual Benefit Gala on April 20, 2023, at the lavish 563 Park Avenue Ballroom in New York City where guests enjoyed a networking reception
PONDER THIS! Those Were the Good Days of Our Youth By Hazel Rosetta Smith It is always an interesting conversation hearing the term “good old days, or “those were the days.” I especially enjoy those words when they are accompanied by a move of the head from side to side. “Those Were the Days” was
Home Buying in Harlem: Be Prepared to Buy Now By Rev. Dr. Charles Butler With home values in the Harlem community rising rapidly, the question that remains in the hearts of every prospective first-time home buyer continues to be a reality check. Can anyone afford to purchase a home in Harlem? Are there any affordable
Urbanology The Power of Forgiving By W.A. Rogers I would be willing to wager that someone who is reading this article has family members or friends who have stopped speaking to one another because of something that happened in the past. It might also be possible that you are going through this type of experience.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued a consumer alert urging New Yorkers to be vigilant of price gouging. The AG is talking about the price gouging of essential goods, such as masks, air purifiers, and air filters, as New York’s air quality worsens due to Canadian wildfires. Plumes of smoke from the Canadian…
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Summer weather is here, and there is no better time to be on the streets of New York—especially at our city’s bustling outdoor restaurants from Harlem to Hollis. At the height of the pandemic, our temporary outdoor dining program served millions of New Yorkers and saved 100,000 jobs. It allowed cooks, waiters, busboys, and all those…
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Harlem World Magazine (HWM), the leading digital publication dedicated to all things Harlem, announce the launch of its online archive store, HWM Store. This first step with the store offers digital photographs taken by award-winning visual artist and publisher Danny Tisdale’s work to celebrate the vibrant culture and history of Harlem, with a focus on…
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In a collaboration between MOME (Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment) and the NYU Steinhardt Music Business Program. The highly anticipated NYMM conference brought forth a comprehensive exploration of New York City’s vibrant music industry. With a lineup of more than 40 esteemed experts, the event featured an array of enlightening speed talks, engaging panels,…
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Harlem’s National Dance Institute (NDI) will celebrate the life of Dr. Maya Angelou at “RISE,” their 2023 Event of the Year from June 17-19 at NYU Skirball Center. This event will include vibrant performances of dance and live music from over 100 talented children from New York City public schools. Jermaine Jones, Executive Director of NDI said, “Maya Angelou inspired…
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is hosting its 5th Annual Literary Festival on Saturday, June 17.
This year’s theme “Literacy is Generational Wealth” features book talks with Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Between Starshine and Clay, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun), Cynthia Manick (No Sweet Without Brine), Henry Threadgill (Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music) and Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky) among others and workshops lead by Hasna Muhammad (Breathe in the Sky: Poems Prayers & Photographs) with Harlem Writers Guild and The Moth.
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This year, author and historian Claude Johnson (Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era) will join the festival for a special conversation presented by PUMA.
Mahogany L. Browne (Chlorine Sky, Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice, Woke Baby, and Black Girl Magic) will open the 135th Street stages with her curated Woke Baby Children’s Festival featuring children’s readings, live music, and craft-making.
The community-wide celebration will also feature storytelling workshops, a marketplace of local vendors and organizations, a New York Public Library mobile library, and programs for all ages.
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Traditionally held on Juneteenth weekend, the Schomburg Center Literary Festival is held both outdoors and throughout the historic research library in Harlem, featuring discussions, workshops, and book signings with established and emerging writers across the Black Diaspora.
The festival takes place on Juneteenth weekend in honor of the holiday that commemorates the day news of emancipation reached enslaved Black people in Texas on June 19, 1865—2 years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
“This year, we are thinking about the legacy of literacy,” said Novella Ford, Associate Director of Public Programs and Exhibitions. “We are honoring the importance of passing down books, positive ideas about reading, and continuing to be bold in our choices at a time when the currents are pushing against the freedom to read and the invaluable service of public libraries. This festival is a celebration of readers and writers across genres and generations.”
Festivities begin at 11:30 AM with the keynote conversation featuring Sarah Ladipo Manyika discussing Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora, and exploring Black thinkers of our times, including Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka, and former First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker.
This year’s artwork Generational Wealth is produced by multidisciplinary artist Ernest A. Ford.
Programs will be held from 11:30 AM – 6 PM on four stages inside the Schomburg Center and outdoors on 135th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Malcolm X Boulevard. Author readings, panel discussions, and workshops will range from prose to poetry, comic books to young adult novels, fiction, and nonfiction. The festival is free, public, and open to all ages. See the full schedule at schomburgcenterlitfest.org.
The 2023 Schomburg Center Literary Festival is powered by Puma. Major support is provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation.
The Schomburg Center Literary Festival is part of The New York Public Library’s “Summer at the Library” initiative, which will launch June 5 and offers kids, teens, and their families a series of free programs at its 92 locations to spark a lifelong love of reading and learning, and help students combat “summer slide”—when they forget what they learned in the summer months while outside the classroom. A full list of free programs and offerings can be found at nypl.org/summer.
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