News for Harlem and the Harlems of the World
Lorman, Miss., May 03, 2024 — Alcorn State University announces Grammy Award-winning artist Montell Jordan as its Spring 2024 Commencement speaker. Two ceremonies will be held on Saturday, May 11, in the Davey L. Whitney HPER Complex. The first ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. and honor graduates from the Golden Class of 1974, College […]
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Celebrated filmmaker Sam Pollard was presented BPM’s Trailblazer Award at PitchBLACK Awards NEW YORK (April 26, 2024) — Black Public Media (BPM) awarded a total of $610,000 to film and immersive projects and creatives at its seventh PitchBLACK Forum — the largest pitch competition for independent filmmakers and creative technologists developing new projects about the global Black experience —
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Taking the Television and Film Industries by Storm…Together A Page Seven article by Ava Medina Don’t Believe the Hype…You Can Have it All Hollywood’s new ‘It’ couple exchanged vows on Nov 5, 2023, in a lavish oceanfront wedding at the fabulous Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica, CA. The Bookie and Queen Sugar actor Omar
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From Film and Television to Business to Branding, She Always Advocates for Us by Ava Medina Unapologetically Black and Certainly Beautiful…Issa Rae Knows What We Want I was sitting with a friend in the View Park/Windsor Hills community of South Los Angeles at the original location of the Hilltop Coffee+Kitchen feeling like I was in
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By Daniel Rose Celebrities abound today, with their huge audiences, great wealth and attention-attracting stunts that exhilarate their devoted fans. Everyone knows, for example, of the Kardashians, of Kanye West, and of so many others of their ilk. Role models for our children, however, are in short supply today. We have largely forgotten the historical
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By Sebastian Castro Tony Weaver, Jr. is an award-winning author, public speaker, social media influencer, and CEO of the nonprofit Weird Enough Productions, a “social impact organization that uses diverse stories to empower young people and the adults that support them.” Weaver made history in 2018 as the first comic writer to make it onto
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The Mellon Foundation (Mellon) of New York announced the award of a $5 million grant to W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation that will support the restoration of the final home and resting place of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois in Accra, Ghana, and the preservation of his library. The grant provides leadership funds for
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by Sebastian Castro The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be presenting a new exhibit in February titled “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” The exhibit will showcase around 160 works of art, including paintings, sculpture, photography and film from prominent African American artists. This exhibit has been a long-time goal of Met Curator Denise Murrell,
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by Sebastian Castro Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater is partnering with WNYC to host their 18th annual celebration commemorating the life and legacy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 14. This year’s event, titled “An Inconvenient King”, aims to subvert typical discourse of King’s work. Brenda Williams-Butts, Chief Diversity Officer of WNYC, co-founded
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In this interview, The Harlem Times interviewed Hima, an artist from Tehran, Iran who is now based in Istanbul, Turkey. She studied art at Gila University with an architecture degree. She can be found on social media at https://www.instagram.com/shima.najafisiyahroudi. The Harlem Times: So, you are from Iran but now live in Turkey. Why did you
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