From Harlem To Hollywood Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Is Everyday
During the less than 13 years of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, from December 1955 until April 4, 1968.
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Alvin Ailey Dance Revelations During A Time Of Adversity
On behalf of the Ailey organization, we wanted to send the following information about upcoming offerings that we hope will provide respite.Continue reading
Dr. King’s Global Inspiration And Influence Explored At The Schomburg In Harlem
With Crusader: Martin Luther King Jr., the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture presents an intimate photo travelogue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an ideological pilgrim, global citizen, traveler, and friend.Continue reading
Mr. Soul! Ellis Haizlip And the Birth of Black Power TV (Video)
Right on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless Black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of Black American culture onto the national television stage.Continue reading
MBP Gale Brewer’s Statement On Central Harlem Historic District
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer issued the following statement following the City Council's approval of the Central Harlem Historic District today:Continue reading
A Conversation With The Legendary Harlem Fave Harry Belafonte
Three-time Grammy Award—winning musician, Actor and Activist Harry Belafonte is one of the most successful Jamaican-American artists of all time, renowned for bringing the Caribbean sound to the international mainstream.
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Lewis H. Michaux, Our Greatest Bookseller,1932 – 1974 (Video)
Harlem bookseller and civil rights activist Lewis H. Michaux, 1895–1976. Harlem's Troy Johnson founder of AALBC.com called Michaux "our Greatest Bookseller."Continue reading
Check Out The Throwback “Soundtrack ‘63” At The Apollo Theatre (Video And Audio)
A Live Musical Documentary with spirituals, protest songs, and current popular music performed by an 18-piece orchestra, created by Brooklyn's Soul Science Lab.
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‘Behind The Movement’ Starring Meta Golding As Rosa Parks Premieres February 2018
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat 62 years ago was only the beginning. Premiering on TV One in February, Behind the Movement offers a closer look at how the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott was planned in just three days and ultimately led to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Continue reading
After Charlottesville, Multiple Faiths Look For Healing In Harlem
NY1 reports that faith leaders gathered Sunday in Harlem to address the hatred and intolerance they said prompted violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.Continue reading
Harlem’s Alicia Keys Recite Harlemite Maya Angelou, And Sings At Women’s March
Saturday's Women's March on Washington has been full of stunning moments, from acclaimed journalist Gloria Steinem's powerful speech to Ashley Judd's fearless praise of "nasty women." Continue reading
HW Pick: “Hidden Figures,” By Margot Lee Shetterly
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.Continue reading
HW Pick: Woodie King’s “In White America” On Off Broadway
Woodie King Jr's New Federal Theatre rare presentation of historian Martin Duberman’s acclaimed 1963 drama In White America, a documentary play about the history of Blacks in America from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement starring Art McFarland, at the Castillo Theater, 543 West 42nd Street, until November 15.
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