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The Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Women of Power & Style Summit and Fashion Show

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The short month of February is always busy with socialites and trend-setters stepping out in their best to canvass the latest designs at Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week. This was no exception on Sunday, February 15th, when aspiring fashionistas gathered at MIST Harlem for brunch, to preview the upcoming Fall/Winter 2015 collection by designer […]

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SUSAN TAYLOR: A NEW WAY FORWARD

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Continuing to stay “In The Spirit” and still shaping new worlds for many, the elegant Susan Taylor takes time to sit with the Harlem times.  Highly recognized across the world stage for her inspirational monthly editorials for over 30 years, Ms. Taylor, the High-priestess in Black media was a dominating force.  Indeed, she still reigns

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OHBM: BRINGING YOU A NEW YORK KIND OF SMILE

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Setting the highest standards and restarting the game for young men of color, The One Hundred Black Men, Inc. (OHBM) recently gathered to celebrate their 35th Annual Gala.  Widely known as a platform to help individuals build their own human capital and mount initiatives to instill a sense of future-mindedness within their communities, the OHBM

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New York Knicks Remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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Before yesterday’s game between the New York Knicks and New Orleans Pelicans, Knicks head coach Derek Fisher, and former New York Knicks player and current color analyst of the MSG Network, Walt Clyde Frazier spoke about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the national holiday that celebrates his birthday. Coach Fisher responded to a question

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Enter the STEM Generation; Rebooting Black American Culture for the 21st Centur

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This is not a criticism, it is an observation.  Black folks toward the end of the 20th century, the post-WWII Baby Boomers who came of age in the Civil Rights era (and I’m one of them), had an extraordinary capacity to rise above any challenge. We also had a brilliant and fearless cadre of local

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What They See Is What They’ll Be….100 Black Men, Inc.

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The Civil-Rights Movement was in its infancy in 1954 when Robert Mangnum became the youngest person, at 32, and the second black person to be named a deputy police commissioner in New York City. Mangnum was committed to “justice for all.” In February 1958, Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy reprimanded him for “impulsive and improper

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THE HARLEM FINE ART SHOW: It’s Not Just A Black Thing

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Art is an intellectual and cultural asset for every culture. Like history, it is the memory of a people. Not long ago, it was difficult to find black art in the mainstream, commercial market. The Harlem Fine-Art Show (HFAS), the premier fine-art exhibition presenting original artwork grounded in the African diaspora, has become a major

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