Tag Archives: Chuck Allen

Dr. Gordon E. Thompson Book Signing, Panel And Discussions in Harlem

A Book signing and Panel discussion regarding Dr. Gordon E. Thompson’s book The Assimilationist Impulse in Four African American Narratives: Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright and LeRoi Jones (Edwin Mellen Press, 2011).

Dr. Thompson, is an associate professor of English at the City College of New York / CUNY, who earned his B.A. from CCNY in 1979 and his M.A. and PhD. in 1987 in American Studies from Yale.

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Good Night Sweet Prince; Same Sex Marriage Missed Opportunities for One Late Politician


“I was just thinking about you and wish that your Chuck had been here to see this historic moment-…love Kelly” reads my FaceBook page at 9 am Sunday July 24th, 2011…. Continue reading

Harlem-Based Chuck Allen III, Scholarship Fund Awards $1,500 To Tri-state Students

When Chuck Allen, III died in 2008 after a 26 year career politician in New Haven, CT. a scholarship fund was established for high school seniors…

Pilar Sanders At The Senator Chuck Allen, III Scholarship Fund In Harlem

On Sunday June 26th, 2011 the Senator Chuck Allen, III Scholarship Fund will award three college-bound seniors $500 prizes for their academic achievements, and submitted essays. Recipients have chosen to study in Accounting, Law, Urban and Public Administration as studied by the late Senator Chuck Allen. He died in 2008 after a long struggle with kidney cancer. Continue reading

HW Radio: Harlem Arts & Culture and Women’s History Month (today)

Newsmakers, Experts and Current Events in the World of Harlem.

Join HW, as we celebrate the last week of Women’s History Month. Today, Danny Tisdale speaks to movers and shakers Marlene Martin new Executive Director of Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center and Johanne Bryant Reid, Co-Executive Director of the Romare Bearden Foundation as they discuss partnering, Harlem’s 2nd Renaissance and more. Also, Danny speaks to Danielle Henry and Willette Carlton, Continue reading

Chuck and Tod “In the Life”

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Partners Tod Roulette (Harlem resident and HW arts contributor) and Chuck Allen, III featured on PBS’s “In the Life” TV special. Here is an excerpt from the show:

Join Tod on February 20th, at 12-2pm to meet the artists who have donated to SCAIII Scholarship fund set-up in Chuck’s name at Swann Galleries at 104 East 25th Street, New York, New York 10010, Tel. 212-254-4710, Fax. 212-979-1017, http://www.swanngalleries.com/index.cgi