Tag Archives: Al Sharpton

Massive Mobilization Against Gun Violence in Harlem (udpdate)

gun buy back in harlemNew York Voices Against Gun Violence, a broad, newly-formed coalition of advocates, victims, youth organizations, healthcare workers, unions, elected officials, faith leaders and artists, announced today that they will hold a massive mobilization to promote the NY SAFE Act as a model for legislation at the federal level and in other states. Continue reading

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Bill Lynch Senior Associate Heads to National Action Network

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Today, Bill Lynch Associates, LLC (BLA), the premier African-American owned and operated public affairs firm in New York, announced that Senior Associate LaMon Bland will be named National Field Director of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN), one of the country’s leading civil rights organizations.   Continue reading

TV One’s First Quarter 2013 Lineup Changes

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TV One today announced changes to its first quarter 2013 primetime lineup, which include new premiere dates for returning docu-series Unsung and its latest scripted comedy, Belle’s. Continue reading

Harlem Rally Protests Coalition in NY State Senate

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Civil rights leaders and black lawmakers, worried that minority communities would be robbed of influence in Albany, on Saturday denounced a plan by Republicans and a group of dissident Democrats to join together to preside over the State Senate. Continue reading

Diddy Receives Triumph Award from the NAN

Throughout the years, Harlem bred hip-hop mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has dabbled in a little bit of everything. Continue reading

Apollo Uptown Hall Announces Free Presidential Viewing Party at the Apollo Theater

The Apollo Theater will present the second event in its newly launched Apollo Uptown Hall series with a FREE viewing party of the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 16th at 7:30pm. Continue reading

Lauryn Hill At The Apollo Theater At 13 (video)

L-Boogie was just a young girl from New Jersey when she took the stage after being introduced by host Rick Avilas at the famed Apollo Theater on 125th Street (13 years old at the time) in Harlem. Continue reading

IUME Colloquia Series: Powerful Literacies Youth Cultural Production

The first IUME colloquium of the year at the EW Gordon campus in Harlem. The colloquium, which begins at 12:30, will feature Jen Johnson and Carla Becker. Continue reading

The African American Day Parade Sunday 16, September 2012

A great piece during the Harlem African American Day Parade on September 16, 2012, shot as the parade moved north uptown along Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., (aka 7th Avenue) and the corner of at 120th Street. Continue reading

The Last Poets & Melba Moore Honor Television Pioneer, Ellis Haizlip

Sometimes history is reflected upon in the mirror of time to reveal unsung glories. One such recent revelation has been the rediscovery of the groundbreaking 1968-1973 PBS series, “SOUL!” Continue reading