Harlem Times Staff

Leslie Uggams to Bring UPTOWN DOWNTOWN to the Apollo, 3/18

Entertainment /

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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Langston Hughes’ Collection of Harlem Rent Party Advertisements

Culture, News /

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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UFC’s fight to legalize MMA in New York

News, Sports /

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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Francis Begins First Full Day as Pope in Private Prayer

Harlem/Metro, News /

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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Killer Nanny

News /

Out of sight but not too far out of mind, accused Killer Nanny- Yoselyn Ortega, was back in the public eye today for the first time. America’s worst nanny was in court for an update to her first degree murder charge for the brutal and unsettling attack on the two children under her watch.  The

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Amar Diarrassouba

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Amar Diarrassouba, 6, left his home on Thursday with his older brother, 9, set for school. As they began to cross 1st avenue just before 8am, a white tractor-trailer turned onto 1st Avenue from 117th street, striking and killing Amar. The crash was heard a block away, at the child’s elementary school, PS 155.   The

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