Harlem Times Staff

By Daniel Rose   Americans love to celebrate birthdays.  A birthday is a legitimate occasion to acknowledge, to commemorate, to appraise an individual’s full stature, to contemplate the significance one life has had for others. On February 13th each year, we celebrate the birthdate of W.E.B. Du Bois, the greatest black individual America has produced, a […]

New York City (February 14, 2022) — NYC & Company, New York City’s official destination marketing organization and convention and visitors bureau, in partnership with Mastercard, today announced that NYC Off-Broadway Week is now live, offering 2-for-1 tickets to 18 Off-Broadway productions through February 27. Tickets can be purchased at nycgo.com/offbroadwayweek.  “We are pleased to kick-off

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that substantial rehabilitation work has begun at Buffalo’s former Public School 78 to transform the vacant building into 46 affordable apartments and space for community programs and services. The $19 million Olympic Avenue Apartments will be highly energy-efficient and will offer residents free WiFi and technical support as part of

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced an agreement that will transform the city-owned South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT) into one of the largest offshore wind port facilities in the nation. The agreement will help establish New York as a leader in offshore wind and help the New York City meet its nation-leading

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced several changes to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that will continue to protect the health and safety of all New Yorkers, while simultaneously boosting the city’s economic recovery. In the face of quickly declining COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations and more than 17 million doses of vaccines

Photo by Liz Lara-Collado, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs At the beginning of Black History, The Harlem Times sat down with New Jersey Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver, the first woman of color to hold statewide office and the first African-American woman to serve as Assembly Speaker in the state of New Jersey, to discuss

Dr. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, is apreacher, activist, and author. Over the last two decades, he has practiced and preached aBlack theology that unapologetically calls attention to the problems of mass incarceration,environmental justice and economic inequality. A third-generation warrior for civil and humanrights, Dr. Moss

BEIJING (Reuters) -Erin Jackson of the United States won gold in the women’s 500 metres speed skating with an explosive start on Sunday, giving the U.S. its first gold medal in the event since 1994 and first speed skating medal at the Beijing Olympics. She could be seen grinning widely after completing her lap of