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Brian McKnight Celebrates Love, Prince, and Whitney Houston in Las Vegas Concert

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by Derrel Johnson Singer, producer, songwriter and musician Brian McKnight took his audience on a journey through his 27-year career of creating beautiful music while also paying homage to some of the greatest performers of all time during his recent concert at the 1,500-seat Encore Theater at Wynn in Las Vegas, Nevada. Performing songs from his 1992 […]

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Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Celebrates Commencement

Education, Harlem/Metro, News /

image above: President Dr. Alan Kadish President Alan Kadish, M.D. Tells Graduates: “Do Good. Be not Only Healers of Physical Illness… Society Needs Healing as Well” New York, N.Y. – June 7, 2019 – At a festive gathering that included a brass band, a live tenor and a presentation of colors from United States Army

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National Black Theatre’s takes over 125th Street with “125th & FREEdom”

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photo credit Christine Jean Chambers Historic theater to present world premiere of ‘125th & FREEdom,’ a river-to-river, five-hour pop-up public dance performance series   Ensemble announced for the Ebony Noelle Golden-choreographed piece on gentrification and displacement, part of the venerated Harlem institution’s 50th anniversary season, NBT Beyond Walls   NEW YORK (May 16, 2019) —

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John Catsimatidis’ Weekend Edition of Cats Roundtable

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  Rudy Giuliani Alan Dershowitz Stephen Moore NYPD-SBA Pres. Ed Mullins Judge Richard Weinberg Touro Pres. Alan Kadish, MD Heather MacDonald Nick Pope on UFOs and Dan Rattiner on the Story Behind Dan’s Papers Join John Catsimatidis on this Weekend’s Edition of the Cats Roundtable Sunday, June 2, 2019   8:30 – 10 am on 970AM-The Answer

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Still I Rise: How Community Leaders and Restaurants of St. Croix Were Able to Revitalize the Island

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by Mashari Grissom Signature restaurants are valued treasures in our communities–especially the ones with good food. Take St. Croix for example, a beautiful island within the Virgin Islands that was recently hit with Hurricane Maria back in September of last year. Yet, their ability to overcome such a turmoil and still being able to provide

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Johnson Publishing on Michagan Avenue in Chicago

The End of an Era: Johnshon Publishing Company Declares Bankruptcy

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Former owner of Ebony and Jet magazines liquidates after nearly eight decades in business By William C. Jackson Johnson Publishing Company, whose iconic magazines Ebony and Jet chronicled Black life in America, announced on April 9th that it has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in a federal court in Chicago. The Associated Press reports

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Harlem Times and Silicon Harlem PANEL 2 – “Harlem Experience” on YouTube

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On Wednesday April 22, 2015 Silicon Harlem hosted the Digital.NYC Five-Borough Tour at Madiba at MIST, Harlem NYC.  This was the last of a series of public events to directly introduce New Yorkers to Digital.NYC, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive hub for the city’s tech ecosystem.  Special guest – FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. PANEL 2 – Harlem

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Geoffrey Eaton, newly appointed Director of Community Affairs and Diversity at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and Touro College of Pharmacy in Harlem.

NAACP Executive Tapped to Lead Diversity at Touro

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Geoffrey E. Eaton Named Director of Community Affairs and Diversity at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine and Touro College of Pharmacy in Harlem   New York, N.Y. – April 15,  2019 – Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) and Touro College of Pharmacy TCOP) in Harlem have appointed Geoffrey E. Eaton director of community affairs

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Jesse Daniels from the Nike Editorial NYC

Basketball and Bravery from Harlem’s Polo Grounds

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by Karen Roberts Jesse Daniels is one of those people that properly use perseverance and determination to get things done. His vehicle for doing so is basketball in what he described as his only way out of inconvenient and dangerous circumstances. His day starts with a vision board and words of encouragement for himself.  The

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