Opinion

Hogshead Tavern Is Harlem’s Best Craft Beer Bar and More

As Harlem continues to be one of the hot places in New York City not only to dine and seek entertainment, but to live, the community changes, with new businesses opening to meet the needs of a changing demographic.  One of the more unique and successful businesses to open in the past year has been […]

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RAE’S PLAYS: “THE AUDIENCE”

AUTHOR    PETER MORGAN DIRECTOR    STEPHEN DALDRY CAST HELEN MIRREN DYLAN BAKER GEOFFREY BEEVERS MICHAEL ELWYN JUDITH IVEY DAKIN MATTHEWS RICHARD McCABE ROD McLACHLAN RUFUS WHITE Having been well-received in London, THE AUDIENCE has travelled across the ocean and onto the Broadway stage. The play is a series of fictional vignettes peeking into the private meetings

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Women’s History Month – Honoring a Legacy

March 8th, International Women’s Day has its roots in early 1900’s world and American History.  Women’s History Month is a result and has placed well-earned Honors upon the works and memories of very distinguished female leaders.  The legacy began with highlighting early women’s issues like Abolition of Slavery, Suffrage, Fair Labor Policies and eventually progress

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Historic Overtown—It’s So Miami

  In Miami’s Historic Overtown, Every Month Is Black History Month. Miami is known to millions for its sun, surf and sizzling nightlife. But it’s also got soul. At every turn in Historic Overtown, there’s a piece of the past waiting to be explored. One of Miami’s earliest black communities, Historic Overtown is known for

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SUSAN TAYLOR: A NEW WAY FORWARD

Continuing to stay “In The Spirit” and still shaping new worlds for many, the elegant Susan Taylor takes time to sit with the Harlem times.  Highly recognized across the world stage for her inspirational monthly editorials for over 30 years, Ms. Taylor, the High-priestess in Black media was a dominating force.  Indeed, she still reigns

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Enter the STEM Generation; Rebooting Black American Culture for the 21st Centur

This is not a criticism, it is an observation.  Black folks toward the end of the 20th century, the post-WWII Baby Boomers who came of age in the Civil Rights era (and I’m one of them), had an extraordinary capacity to rise above any challenge. We also had a brilliant and fearless cadre of local

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An Interview with Anita Farrington Associate Dean of Student Affairs at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Harlem Times had the pleasure to sit down with Ms. Anita Farrington, and what follows are some of the gems she shared with us. How long have you held the position of Associate Dean of Student Affairs?  I have been in this position for about four years, but my career in student affairs, and higher

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Public Safety, Public Justice

The term “crisis” is represented in written Chinese by the characters for “danger” and “opportunity.”  This accurately describes the state of tension between America’s racial and ethnic minorities and the police and between our criminal justice system and a growing portion of the American public.  The “danger” from destructive action stimulated by irresponsible demagogues is

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WHOSE YOUR LANDLORD?

“The Mastermind of Ingenuity” Ofo Ezeugwu, is the mastermind behind WhoseYourLandlord.com (WYL), a website that enables college students to rate their housing experiences; including residence halls, landlords or housing complexes. Imagine rating and sharing it amongst college-peers to determine the livability of a property or environment, a platform that places the power of ownership in the hands

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