News for Harlem and the Harlems of the World
By Daniel Rose Donald Stewart, former president of HBCU Spelman College, and later president of the College Board, has left us. If there is a God and if there is a Heaven, he has been greeted with choirs of angels and a heavenly crown. First in his family to go to college, he graduated with […]
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By Daniel Rose “Gentrification” is the term widely applied to an influx of affluent young professionals displacing long-term lower-income residents and businesses in a revitalizing, dynamic urban setting. Every European capital—and American cities like San Francisco, Atlanta, Baltimore, Seattle and Washington, D.C.—has witnessed tensions when newcomers cause property values to rise and rents increase,
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DimensionU hosted its annual Hawai’i Math Games with students from across O’ahu at the University of Hawai’i, West O’ahu, February 22, 2019. Look for DimensionU’s new partnership with The Harlem Times’ e-game tournament in June 2019. [Photos provided by DimensionU] DimensionU is an educational video game company focused on delivering innovative and
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High School Students in Rigorous After School Program Learn Science, Medicine at Harlem Medical School New York, N.Y. – March 18, 2019 – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) graduated 71 high school students from its unique two-year after school program, “MedAchieve”, last week. The students received accolades and certificates from TouroCOM and their DO
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Class of 2019 Lands Impressive Residencies New York, N.Y. – March 18, 2019 – Eagerness and suspense were followed by shrieks of happiness, laughter, hugs and tears of joy Friday as the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) Class of 2019 gathered at a Match Day party to open their envelopes and find out where
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By William C. Jackson Baltimore’s Morgan State University was awarded a three-year, $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership Development Grant on from the nonprofit organization Base 11, according to Afro.com. The historically Black college made the announcement on February 11. The grant, which aims to improve diversity in the aerospace talent pipeline, was announced in
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By Mashari Grissom Photo: Ice Cube and LL Cool J taken by Dylan Buell (Getty Images) Thank you for Hip Hop—was the comment that resonated the most on social media after LL Cool J and Ice Cube’s recent business venture was announced. The two legendary Rappers stapled in Hip Hop history, are in the process
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by Mashari Grissom Despite the controversy around NFL, the Rapper and Producer Travis Scott will be performing at the Super Bowl LIII. It was announced in early January that Scott will headline Pepsi’s Super Bowl weekend party at Planet Pepsi in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, Feb. 1. The performance will be held days before the
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New Student-Run Touro Harlem Health Clinic Meets TouroCOM’s Mission of Service and Student Need for Valuable Learning Experiences New York, N.Y. – February 1, 2019 – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) has opened a student-run, free clinic to serve the Harlem community, Dean David Forstein, DO, announced. The Touro Harlem Health Clinic, located at
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By Daniel Rose In the Spring of 1963, our friend Bayard Rustin asked my wife and me to join him for dinner with Martin Luther King Jr, whose formidable “Letter From Birmingham Jail” we had just read. Bayard was working with A. Philip Randolph, head of the Sleeping Car Porters Union, to plan a mass
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