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 By Daniel Rose Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been awarded by a huge outpouring of our voters the leadership of a uniquely complex urban metropolis, and the challenges he faces today in guiding it constructively are profound.   The municipal government’s current precarious financial position — due largely to improvidence of Mayor Mamdani’s immediately-preceding mayoral administrations of […]

Here in New York, there is no shortage of opportunities for seniors looking for ways to spend their time. But so many of those opportunities come at steep, inaccessible fees. Council Lifetime Learning is different. Council Lifetime Learning (also known as CLL) engages older adults through a variety of interesting and stimulating classes, mostly focusing

Op-Ed by Daniel Rose We are facing a war that could “spiral beyond anyone’s control”, warned U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on March 6th, as Russia and China today explore means of supporting Iran, while America’s previous allies reflect on their options. Many voices echo the comment of Germany’s Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbell, “This is not

By Derrel Johnson From the outside, Democracy Prep Charter High School senior Kahlil Gordon looks like the average teen. He wakes up five days a week to go to school. On weekends, he works a part-time job at his deceased great-grandmother’s famous Harlem soul food eatery, Sylvia’s Restaurant. But what Gordon does after school during

By Vildana Bijedic I have been to Tanzania before. Years ago, I came chasing altitude, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and watching the sun rise from Uhuru Peak, measuring success in steps, oxygen and endurance. This time, when I landed, what struck me was not scale, but stillness. There was no sense of arrival as achievement. No

By Derrel Johnson The Harlem Times spoke exclusively with actress Wunmi Mosaku, who plays Annie in the movie Sinners, and Miles Caton, who plays Sammie in the same film, about working with Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler, and others. What were your first thoughts when you read the script, and what attracted you to the

By Rev. Diahne Parsons Leave a Comment / News Dreams have gravity. Unfulfilled ones can lay a crushing weight on their victims. Dreams that are given life, however, gain traction and forward movement. They stir and mobilize themselves into fruition. We are not apart from our dreams. Together we form; we metabolize and bubble up out onto

Sponsored by JPMorganChase Business optimism is returning for small and midsize business leaders at the start of 2026, fueling confidence and growth plans. The 2026 Business Leaders Outlook survey, released in January by JPMorganChase, reveals a turnaround from last June, when economic headwinds and uncertainty about shifting policies and tariffs caused some leaders to put

THT Staff The city woke to the news of Reverend Jesse Jackson’s passing with a quiet, collective breath—no thunder, just a pause that asks how a life can map a nation’s direction. Jackson’s work reverberated through Harlem and through similar Harlems across America, translating civil rights rhetoric into concrete policy and lasting institutions. His imprint