News for Harlem and the Harlems of the World
Toni Fay is a well-established career woman. She received a B.A. degree from Duquesne University, a M.S.W. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and a M.Ed. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Fay began working as a caseworker for the New York City Department of Welfare in 1968. She was then named the director of […]
LIU’s dominating 91-70 over Mount Saint Mary’s on Tuesday night earned them their 3rd consecutive Northeast Conference Championship, and their 3rd consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament. The Blackbirds of LIU showed tremendous heart and perseverance this season as they would lose key players to suspension, and the reigning NEC player of the year Julian
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Bread and Roses was one of three uptown public schools slated for phaseout by the Panel for Educational Policy this week, along with the Choir Academy of Harlem and J.H.S. 013 Jackie Robinson. MS 45/STARS Prep Academy, a Grade 6 to 8 school in East Harlem, will close at the end of the school year.
Tony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams will present a special performance of her acclaimed one-woman musical autobiography Uptown Downtown at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem on Monday, March 18 at 8 p.m. The legendary actress and singer returns to the historic theater where her career began, opening for the likes of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington – at
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These cards, collected by Langston Hughes and held with his papers in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, advertised “rent parties” to be held in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s. Hosts of these gatherings opened up their apartments for a night, charging a fee to guests in return for live music, dancing, and socializing.
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St John’s slim NCAA tournament chances ended Wednesday night as they were defeated by Villanova 66-53. Although St John’s went down, they did not go down without a fight. At one point in the 1st half it seemed as if Villanova would turn the game into a blow out as they led 18-6. But St
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Laurel and Hardy meet Samuel Beckett! Two men struggle to kill time as they sit in a basement awaiting instructions for their next job. Surprise deliveries from an unseen force begin to arrive. Chaos and absurdity ensue in this dark comedy by Harold Pinter. Hang a Tale presents The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter. Directed by Kim
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Lorenzo Fertitta sat in the front row at a mixed martial arts fight in New York. The problem for Fertitta, chairman and chief executive of Ultimate Fighting Championship, was that front row’s location — the Capitol building in Albany, high above the action on the floor of the state Senate instead of in Madison Square Garden. Fertitta and a number of other UFC officials, fighters
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“Habemus Pamam Francisum,” reads the first Tweet from the new @Pontifex. The induction of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is a sign of new beginnings for the Catholic Church. He is the first pope to ever choose the name ‘Francis I,’ a sign of his rebellious spirit, considering most Popes go by the more
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VATICAN CITY — Displaying some of his signature distaste for the trappings of high office, Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, began the first full day of his papacy on Thursday with private prayers at a Roman basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary, slipping quietly into the building by a side door and leaving some
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