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Harlem’s Bill Lynch Gets Award Named After Him

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The Rumpled Genius

Today, the NAACP created a new award to honor Bill Lynch, the star political strategist and the Chairman and Founder of Harlem-based Bill Lynch Associates, LLC, the premier Black owned and operated political consulting firm in New York city— for his exemplary career as one of the top political minds in the country. Continue reading

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J. Raymond Jones ‘The Harlem Fox’, The First Black Leader of Tammany

Corbis-BE047457J. “The Harlem Fox” Raymond Jones, (St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, 1899 – June 9, 1991 New York) African American New York politician. He moved to New York City in 1918. Continue reading

Stars Shine in Celebration Of Ruby Dee

They arrived to pay tribute to an icon of the Harlem community on Wednesday, November 14, Ruby Dee‘s 90th Birthday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture! 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

Judge Bruce Wright Street Naming in Harlem (video)

Residents, politicians, family,residents and friends attend the street naming in honor of the late Judge Bruce Wright Adam Clayton Blvd., and 138th Street … Continue reading

African American Day Parade in Harlem 2012 (mashup)

 

The 43rd Annual African-American Day Parade was held this past Sunday in Harlem on Adam Clayton Powell Bvd.,. from 111th Street to 135th Street. Continue reading

Harlem Remembers Sylvia Woods “The Queen Of Soul Food”

Harlem restaurateur Sylvia Woods was a legendary chef, but she was also a key figure in the Harlem political scene. Continue reading

Bollinger Wins, But Does Harlem?

Lee Bollinger had yet to take over as president of Columbia University in 2002 when he toured a largely industrial area about 10 blocks north of the historic campus on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Continue reading

Harlemites Pack NYUrban League 46th Awards Dinner

Harlem was in the house with more than 340 guests came out last Thursday evening in support of the New York Urban League’s 46th Annual Frederick Douglass Awards dinner. Continue reading

Rangel’s Harlem Supporters Come Out In Force

Supporters of Rep. Charles Rangel said Sunday that the Democratic lawmaker has been punished enough by the House ethics committee’s two-year investigation and should not by censured by the full Congress. Continue reading