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Harlem YMCA Wins American Dreamer Award

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

The Harlem YMCA today announced that it is the winner of this year’s prestigious American Dreamer Award in the “Community Builder” category from the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA). Continue reading →

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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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An Interview with Dr. Gordon E. Thompson on “The Assimilationist Impulse in Four African American Narratives”

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | 1 Comment

A general interest in James Baldwin’s critique of Richard Wright’s “Native Son” inspired Gordon E. Thompson’s text “The Assimilationist Impulse in Four African American Narratives,” (Edwin Mellen Press, 2011). In Thompson’s understanding, “Baldwin felt that Wright was channeling, one might say, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’” During the interview, Thompson, a Ph.D. recipient in American Studies from Yale University and currently an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Black Studies Program at the City College of New York, does not expound on the link between Stowe and Wright. Continue reading →

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Tagged Booker T. Washington, City College of New York, Edwin Mellen Press, Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, LeRoi Jones, richard wright, Richard-Olivier Marius

Canada Lee Born in Harlem (video)

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Harlem World Magazine | 6 Comments

Lee was born as ‘Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata on March 3, 1907 in Harem, New York City. He was raised by his West Indian parents in Harlem, NY. Continue reading →

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HW Pick: ‘Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City’ And Harlem

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip’s Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and took their seats among five hundred wealthy and powerful white church leaders. Ultimately, and with great reluctance, the Convention had acceded to the men’s request: official recognition for St. Philip’s, the first African American Episcopal church in New York City. Continue reading →

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HW Bio: Richard Wright (video)

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century. Wright was born on the Rucker Plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, the first of two sons to Ella Wilson, an elementary schoolteacher, and Nathaniel Wright, an illiterate, alcoholic sharecropper. Continue reading →

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Happy B-day Richard Wright

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

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It is an idyllic vision: the reposed writer crafting a revolutionary novel in Fort Greene Park. For Richard Wright (1908-1960), Brooklyn was a brief time of relative solace in an otherwise burdened life.

Struggling to support his family, summoning the courage to speak for his race while breaking free of ties to the Communist Party, Wright wrote with an honest self-awareness that made him “a master of the psychological suspense narrative.”

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hw pick: Lenox Lounge

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

The historic Lenox Lounge, where musicians have been playing since 1938.

Paino man Lafayette Harris Jr., tickles the ivories during the weekday. Continue reading →

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A bookworm’s holiday in Harlem

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Harlem World Magazine | Leave a comment

The Schomburg, in Harlem, is looking sharp after an $11 million overhaul last year, and holds, among much else, 400 black newspapers, rare books and the original manuscript of “Native Son” by Richard Wright. On Feb. 4, it will open the Abyssinian Baptist Church Bicentennial Exhibition, examining the evolution of what, at the time of its founding, was the only African-American Baptist church in the state of New York. Continue reading →

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