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Avon Ad Photo Shot In Front Of The Apollo Theater

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Today real and fake paparazzi were in front of the Apollo Theater on 125th Street for an Avon Cosmetics photo shoot in Central Harlem. Continue reading →

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Tagged 125th Street, Amiri Baraka, apollotheater, Chaka Khan, Harlem, New York City, red carpet, Vernon Reid

Walter’s World: Tongues of Fire Choir

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

By Walter Rutledge

On Saturday, April 27 the Apollo Theater presented Tongues of Fire Choir by poet, performer, and teacher Sekou Sundiata and composer/trombonist Craig Harris. The production, which premiered at Harlem’s Aaron Davis Hall in 1996, is part of Blink Your Eyes: Sekou Sundiata Revisited, a seven-month citywide retrospective celebrating the work and creative legacy of Sekou Sundiata (1948- 2007). Continue reading →

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Walter’s World: Sekou Sundiata Retrospective Begins Today

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

By Walter Rutledge

Blink Your Eyes: Sekou Sundiata Revisited, a seven-month citywide retrospective celebrating the work and creative legacy of poet, playwright, performer, and educator Sekou Sundiata (1948–2007) begins tonight Tuesday, April 2 with a dialogue entitled Sekou Sundiata: Writer/Teacher/Activist at The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center from 6 to 8 pm. Continue reading →

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Tagged 51st (dream) state (2006), Aaron Davis Hall, Amiri Baraka, Apollo Theater, apollotheater, Bill Moyers, blessing the boats (2002), Blink Your Eyes: Sekou Sundiata Revisited, Carl Hancock Rux, Eugene Lang College, Harlem, MAPP International, New York City, Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam, Sekou Sundiata, The Circle Unbroken Is a Hard Bop, The New School for Liberal Arts, Tongues of Fire Choir (1996), Vernon Reid, Video, Walter Rutledge, Walter's World:

HW Radio Pod with Dr. Gordon Thompson & Ed Sherman, February 21st, at 2 pm

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Join HW Radio Podcast host Danny Tisdale in another segment of our Black History Month special as he speaks to Dr. Gordon Thompson about his book The Assimilationist Impulse in Four African American Narratives: Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright and LeRoi Jones and panel discussion at St. Philips Church on February 26th.

In addition, Danny speaks to member HW Photographer and NCA member, Rudy Collins and Ed Sherman, photographer and president of the National Conference of Artists New York (NCA) about the new photographic traveling show opening their traveling show starting at the Schomburg starting on February 22nd.

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Tagged Amiri Baraka, black history month, Frederick Douglass, Gordon Thompson, James Weldon Johnson, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, richard wright

Amiri Baraka Carries on “The Good Fight” in Honor of A. Philip Randolph; Heath Gallery Finds a New Leader

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Harlem Arts Alliance Presents: On the “A” with Souleo

For most working people there has been at least one occasion when they’ve wanted to pick up a marker, decorate a picket sign with a clever catchphrase and go lead a strike. Continue reading →

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Tagged african american, Amiri Baraka, Brian Ghaw, Ella Veres, Gilbert Gandia, Harlem Arts Alliance, Heath Gallery, Kai Heath, Michael Dailey, National Black Theatre, Philip Randolph, Savoy Bakery, Souleo, Thomas and Saundra Heath

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) In Harlem

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | 2 Comments

The Black Arts Movement or BAM is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones). Time Magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the “single most controversial moment in the history of African-American literature — Continue reading →

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Tagged Amiri Baraka, Black Arts Movement, Harlem Writers Guild, Hoyt W. Fuller, Ishmael Reed, LeRoi Jones, Umbra

‘The Jazz Social’ At Whole Foods In Harlem

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | 3 Comments

Join Whole Foods Market and HarlemSocial.com for “The Jazz Social.”
This unique experience will merge the world of jazz music with social
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Tagged Amiri Baraka, Byron Ward, Greg Tate, HarlemSocial, Jazz Foundation of America, Kgansti, Mike Street, Whole Food Market

Celebrating Amiri Baraka’s 75th Birthday

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

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Fusha Dance Company celebrates Amiri Baraka’s 75th Birthday with an African dance from the Congo called Hamba (which is a female war dance), they honor his life’s work as a spiritual warrior. The event took place at the Schomburg in Harlem NYC with.
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Tagged 75th Birthday, Amiri Baraka, Congo, Fusha Dance, Hamba, schomburg

The Max Rodriquez Way: The Harlem Book Fair

Posted on February 12, 2004 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Harlem World Magazine: Who inspired you?

MAX RODRIGUEZ: I acknowledge my parents for having instilled a good sense of compassion and hard work in me. My father worked to the bone. My mother loved us to the bone. They inspire me to both. Yarina, my partner, opens my heart to love and inspiration.

HW: What is the key to your success?

MR: My key to success is standing only in the possibility of what can be. We, all, are creators. It is what we are called to do. We have only to powerfully choose that which we choose to be, and then powerfully and intentionally stand inside of it. Continue reading →

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