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Op-ed By Claire Lalanne I am sitting in a Haitian church during service, and the lay leader asks to pray for all those who can’t attend in person. I don’t understand why she is saying this, but I continue to pray for my (own personal) sorrow. I attended my uncle’s funeral last month in August, […]

Tips from local Community Manager, Iliana Menesick Sponsored by JPMorganChase Today’s students and young adults are true digital natives, having grown up online, learning to navigate digital spaces as a normal part of daily life. As they transition to college, they turn to digital platforms and social media for everything  from apartment hunting and job

By Vuyanzi Rodman “What’s it like living in Africa?” “I don’t know because Africa has 50+ countries and I live in one.” Before moving to Kenya, unlike many other African Americans I met here, I was not internationally well traveled. Living here was more of a fluke. I came for the burial of a good

By Claire Lalanne The Harlem Times recently sat down with a Haitian American to look at what the loss of TPS is doing to the Haitian community, and what it will cost America in the long run. And after much soul searching, we found links to our common heritage, as well as our common humanity.

A Harlem Times Q&A with Todd Nordstrom There is an old African proverb that says, “A single bracelet does not jingle.” One hand alone makes no music. It takes many hands, moving together, to create sound worth hearing. It is a fitting image for a man who has built a career not on solitary ambition,

The award-winning book Your Heart, My Hands by Arun K. Singh, M.D. tells the story of an immigrant determination, hard work, overcoming obstacles, disabilities and dyslexia. Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father’s doubt in the 60’s, a 20-something doctor from India arrived in America with only $5 and the desire to

The Story Of How Community Banking Turned Into A Local And National Phenomenon New York is a city defined by its skyline, but its heart beats strongest in its neighborhoods. Over the past five years, as the new 270 Park Avenue headquarters of JPMorganChase steadily rose above Midtown—a bold, visible statement of the bank’s commitment

By Rev. Diahne Parsons Agent of positive change, JPMorgan Chase Bank, invites entrepreneurs in the community into their space.  Positioning their small business clients for better stewardship, Chase has established JPMorgan Chase “Coaching for Impact”.   This program has created a community of advisers offering their own Sr. Business Consultants that provide the larger operating system

On the streets of Harlem have walked giants of the Black Experience with many firsts. Decades before Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African American to become a Rhodes Scholar, was crowned as the father of the Harlem Renaissance in 1925, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois had earned a PhD from Harvard University as the first African

I woke up this morning feeling numb from the news out of Mississippi. Another young person taken far too early, without cause. As the facts trickle out, it feels like a dance we’ve seen before: a young Black person finds himself in the wrong company, and doesn’t make it home. A sad story. A familiar