Tag Archives: Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation

Hot Bread Kitchen founder opens retail store to complement nonprofit bakery, business incubator

They came, they smelled and they knocked. In fact, they kept knocking on the windows so often, and asking to buy so much bread, that Hot Bread Kitchen founder Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez eventually had to come up with a solution. Continue reading

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MNN Opens New State-of the-Art Studio in East Harlem Firehouse

The new-and-improved El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center is now filled with three high-definition live broadcast and production studios, as well as editing and training facilities. Continue reading

Virginia M. Montague Elected First Woman Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Historic Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

On September 1, 2011, the Mother AME Zion Church, the oldest Black Church in the State of New York elected its first woman chairperson in its 215 year history. Virginia McNeil Montague, currently serving as the President of the Founding Chapter of the New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women is very active in her community and her church. Continue reading