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Story by THT Media Lab Staff, Photo: Tord Labuda, CEO of Alzinova Alzinova is testing an experimental treatment intended to help the body fight harmful protein clumps in the brain. Early data is promising, and the next round of research will help show whether that promise holds. “When an elder dies, a library burns to

Photo: Civil Rights Attorney Yolande I. Nicholson Class action targeted city program that seized homes, largely in Black and Latino neighborhoods NEW YORK, Brooklyn civil rights attorney Yolande I. Nicholson is part of the legal team that has reached a $60 million class action settlement with the City of New York on behalf of homeowners

By Ensign Andrew Hanchar, Navy Office of Community Outreach LEMOORE, Calif. – Every sailor’s story of naval service is unique. For Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin Holley, this story has ties to Harlem, New York, where skills and values learned there are foundational to success in the Navy. “I played basketball in high school and

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,

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