Tag Archives: James Baldwin

Harlem History: Twenty Two West (“22 West”)

Posted on September 25, 2011 by | 3 Comments

“22 West” was the name of the Harlem Restaurant – Bar – Jazz Club – Gallery & Banquet Room, that was located at 22W.135th St., between 5th and Lenox in Manhattan. Continue reading →

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Glenn Ligon’s Porn, Politics, And Pop At The Whitney Museum

Posted on March 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Glenn Ligon had his first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1993, the same year he appeared in the museum’s much maligned biennial. At the time, politically provocative art dominated the cultural landscape, and as the conceptual artist channeled African-American cultural history through text-based pieces that declared things like “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background,” Ligon found himself stereotyped as an artist propagandizing about racial identity. Continue reading →

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From Dey Hill To Sugar Hill: Home In Harlem

Posted on March 13, 2011 by | Leave a comment

If anyone had asked me one year ago where I would be living and working today, never would I have imagined that my youthful dreams of experiencing “the big city” as a local would come to fruition so quickly. Continue reading →

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WNYC’s Black & Latino Literary Salon: Re-Read Of James Baldwin At Studio Museum In Harlem

Posted on February 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place. –James Baldwin, “The Creative Process”

Join Celeste Headlee, host of WNYC’s The Takeaway; Patrik Henry Bass, senior editor at Essence Magazine; Darryl Pinckney, novelist, playwright and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books; and Hilton Als, staff writer at The New Yorker, for a discussion about discovering what it means to be an artist in the world. Continue reading →

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HW Pick: ‘The Fire Next Time’ Signed By James Baldwin

Posted on December 25, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Collect this rare hardcover book The Fire Next Time signed by James Baldwin with white cloth binding tight and straight, corners sharp. Red spine title, faint red topstain. Black endpapers. It’s inscribed on half title page: “To ____ Best, James Baldwin.” Continue reading →

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Wintour, Mizrahi, Talley… On Diddy’s ‘Paris’ Album

Posted on December 2, 2010 by | Leave a comment

P. Diddy’s new album Last Train to Paris comes out December 14, but you can have an exclusive first listen of it on the website that obviously best goes with that album: Vogue.com! In fact, Vogue has been behind this album from the very beginning, and even ran a fashion editorial of Diddy with Natalia Vodianova in the February issue, also called “Last Train to Paris.” Continue reading →

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The Schomburg Fall Season Schedule

Posted on September 14, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Welcome to the 2010-2011 Season!

There is something for everyone at the Schomburg this season! Don’t miss our classic program series: Talks,  Films, Performances, and Education. Be sure to check out our two new series starting in October. Family @ the Schomburg are programs tailored to children six years and older with hands-on workshops and performances and Classes @ the Schomburg include Wednesday Sings presented by Vy Higginsen and the Mama Foundation for the Arts, a monthly singing class open to all levels. Continue reading →

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Walter’s World: Remembering Jimmy

Posted on August 16, 2010 by | 4 Comments

By Walter Rutledge

August 2, 2010 marked the eighty-sixth birthday of James Baldwin. For the second year in a row the Faison Firehouse Theater has chosen to step to the forefront and present Remembering Jimmy- a tribute to the late James Baldwin. Last year the celebration was a forum with colleagues and contemporaries, and family and friends sharing memories of this extraordinary human being, whose life was lived in the service of his art and humanity.

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Walter’s World: Remembering Jimmy

Posted on July 27, 2010 by | 4 Comments

By Walter Rutledge

Monday August 2, 2010 should be a day of celebration and gratitude in African American communities nationwide. This premise is especially prevalent for the people of the village of Harlem, in the city of New York. August 2 is the birthday of literary genius and Harlem native son James Baldwin.

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HW Radio show tonight at 6:30 pm

Posted on August 14, 2009 by | Leave a comment

HW Radio

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Today’s guest include:

1. Dr. Deborah Williams  a professor at Touro College discussing Health Care issues and it’s effect in Harlem.

2. Christopher Moore talks about his article on the 200 Anniversary of St. Phillips Church exhibit at the Schomburg.

3. Walter Rutledge, discusses his article regarding James Baldwin’s 85th Avnniverary party at the Faison Theater last week in Harlem.

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