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LMCC Announces Funding Opportunities for Artists and Communities 

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📣Calling all Manhattan artists and arts organizations! Applications for LMCC’s 2024 Manhattan Arts Grants are now open! LMCC awards grants each year to Upper Manhattan-based artists, collectives, and organizations engaging Upper Manhattan communities through a wide range of artistic programming and events. Upper Manhattan artists and organizations may be eligible for City, State, UMEZ and Howard Gilman funds […]

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Ghanaian Hip-Hop Hits New York!

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Michael Owusu Addo (born 10 July 1988) known professionally as Sarkodie (/sɑːrˈkɔːdiɛ/), is a Ghanaian rapper, songwriter, and entrepreneur from Tema. His contributions to the Ghanaian music industry have earned him numerous accolades, including the Vodafone Ghana Music Award for “Artiste of the Decade”. He was announced the first winner of BET’s Best International Flow Artist at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards. He is also considered one

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Odyssey of a Beautiful Mind: An Art Exhibition by Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo Okeke

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Immersing himself in the beauty of art is Kanye’s way of rising above autism. The vibrant paintings of this multiple award-winning artist gives us a glimpse into his beautiful mind when he can’t express it in words. The youngest-ever recipient of the Austrian “flame of peace award,” Kanyeyachukwu is a 13-year-old child living with autism

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NY’s Fabulous Five! Women Leading the Way

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by Derrel Jazz Johnson In celebration of Women’s History Month, JPMorgan Chase put together an extraordinary panel of five fabulous women at a Chase branch in the heart of Harlem. The panel featured Harlem’s own born, bred, and buttered Melba Wilson, owner of Melba’s Restaurant, Carolina Jannicelli, Managing Director, Head of Community Impact, JPMorgan Chase,

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Perspectives on Carver Bank’s 2023 Women of Influence Leadership Summit

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The 2023 Women of Influence Summit event at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on March 21, 2023 was simply inspirational and beautiful. Listening to these four amazing women made me think about my mother and how she raised two boys working two jobs, and how

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Traditions of Resistance Tied Across the Atlantic

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by the Secretariat of the ICAAD Marking her one-year anniversary, Her Royal Majesty Sêmévo 1st Dr. Dòwòti Désir, Queen Mother of the African Diaspora, Bénin Republic, was accompanied by a delegation of women from the United States to Cotonou. The women are the first cadets of the Imperial Corps Agoodjié of the African Diaspora (ICAAD)

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Guillermo Gleizer, Renaissance Man: From Miami to Rome, For the Love of Art

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Interviewed, Transcribed, and Written By Monika Eva Hadaszy What comes to mind when one thinks of a Renaissance man?…A brilliant mind, who generously shares ideas? A titan of industry? A relentless advocate of justice, who fights for the rights of victims, innocents, and the voiceless? A major influencer in the art world? An utmost gentleman

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