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NYT Architecture : Despite Setbacks, Harlem’s Brotherhood Sister Sol Thrives https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/arts/design/brotherhood-sister-sol-harlem.html #UrbanArchitecturalInitiativesRAPC #Brotherhood/SisterSol #Harlem(Manhattan,NY) #BudgetsandBudgeting #Hispanic-Americans #Architecture #BlackPeople
Today in Labor History April 16, 1994: Ralph Ellison died on this day. Ellison was a member of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his book, The Invisible Man. He was friends with Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. He became active in the Communist Party, as did many of his peers. But he became disillusioned with them during World War II when he felt they became reformist. He wrote The Invisible Man during this era (published in 1952), in part, as a response their betrayal. But the book also looks at the relationship between black identity and Marxism, the reformism of Booker T. Washington, and issues of individuality and personal identity.
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Bathers On The Harlem River, New York City 1939 Saul Kovner
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Today in Labor History March 19, 1935: Harlem Uprising occurred, during the Great Depression, after rumors circulated that a black Puerto Rican teenage shoplifter was beaten by employees at an S. H. Kress "five and dime" store, and then killed by the police. Protests were quickly organized by the Young Liberators and the Young Communist League, which were promptly declared illegal by the police. Participants smashed windows of the store and began looting. The protest and looting spread, causing $200 million in damages. Police arrested 125 people and killed 3. Mayor LaGuardia set up a multi-racial Commission to investigate the causes of the riot, headed by African-American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier and with members including labor leader A. Philip Randolph. The identified "injustices of discrimination in employment, the aggressions of the police, and the racial segregation" as conditions which led to the outbreak of rioting, and congratulated the Communist organizations as deserving "more credit than any other element in Harlem for preventing a physical conflict between whites and blacks".
Shrine is one of my favorite places I've played in NYC. I feel stupid for not going there every night I'm in town. Original live music 7-midnight, then DJs midnight-4am, 7 nights a week! Can't wait to play there again.
Forty years of playing Lou Reed’s “I’m Waiting for the Man”. #111Words #LouReed #ImWaitingForTheMan #TheVelvetUnderground #Songs #Music #PlayingGuitar #Singing #Heroin #Harlem https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/02/forty-years-of-playing-lou-reeds-im.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_R._Fauset I just finished reading “Harlem Rhapsody” by Victoria Christopher Murray, a novel about Jessie Redmon Fauset, what an amazing woman! She is one of the many people we should have learned about in school! Please read and research all the amazing people history left out of school books! #blackhistory #bannedbooks #history #jessieredmonfauset #harlemrhapsody #harlem #blackhistorymonth
Anyone want to come to a show next Friday night? My band is playing at Shrine in #Harlem! We do original, jazzy, funky #rocknroll with sax and keys.
I'll feel better if I can make art in the face of crisis.
Photo by me, from Torch Lake, Michigan, 2008.
Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember Flo Kennedy, who was born on this date February 11, 1916, in Kansas City, Missouri. Kennedy was a lawyer, feminist and civil-rights activist. As a lawyer, she represented Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Assata Shakur, H. Rap Brown, and Valerie Solanas (for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol). In 1972 she formed the Feminist Party and filed an Internal Revenue Service complaint alleging that the Catholic Church violates tax-exempt requirements by spending money to influence political decisions. "I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady . . . & a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me."
She grew up at a time when the KKK was quite active in Kansas City. She remembered her father had to have a shotgun to keep them safe. "My parents gave us a fantastic sense of security and worth. By the time the bigots got around to telling us that we were nobody, we already knew we were somebody." As a young woman, she moved to Harlem and enrolled at Columbia. She was refused admission to their law school because she “was a woman.” She knew it was because she was black. So, she threatened to sue them and they admitted her. She was the only black person among the eight women in her class.
As an activist, she once said, "we have a pathologically, institutionally racist, sexist, classist society. And that niggerizing techniques that are used don't only damage black people, but they also damage women, gay people, ex-prison inmates, prostitutes, children, old people, handicapped people, native Americans. And that if we can begin to analyze the pathology of oppression… we would learn a lot about how to deal with it." As early as 1966, she was picketing and lobbying the media over their portrayal of Black people. She played a prominent role in the protest against the 1968 Miss America Pageant. After the Attica prison uprising, she said, “We do not support Attica. We ARE Attica.” She also participated in the 1973 protests at Harvard over the lack of women’s bathrooms. When asked why she participated in the pouring of urine on the steps of Lower Hall, she said, “I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.
In addition to her activism and legal work, Kennedy also acted in the films “The Landlord” (1970), adapted from Kristin Hunter's 1966 novel, and the independent political drama “Born In Flames” (1983), directed by Lizzie Borden. She also acted in “Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow” alongside Morgan Freeman.
‘Harlem’ Creator Reveals Changed Storylines and How the Show Wouldn’t Have Existed Without Amy Poehler
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‘Harlem’ Series Finale: Grace Byers, Shoniqua Shandai on That Emotional Baby Shower Scene, Where Their Characters Land and Hopes for a Revival
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Today, in honor of Black History Month, we celebrate the life of Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927), a West Indian-American writer, speaker, educator, political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by union leader A. Philip Randolph as the father of Harlem radicalism and by John G. Jackson as "The Black Socrates." Harrison’s activism encouraged the development of class consciousness among workers, black pride, secular humanism, social progressivism, and free thought. He denounced the Bible as a slave master's book, and said that black Christians needed their heads examined. He refused to exalt a "lily white God " and "Jim Crow Jesus," and criticized Churches for pushing racism, superstition, ignorance and poverty. Religious extremists were known to riot at his lectures. At one of his events, he attacked and chased off an extremist who had attacked him with a crowbar.
In the early 1910s, Harrison became a full-time organizer with the Socialist Party of America. He lectured widely against capitalism, founded the Colored Socialist Club, and campaigned for Eugene V. Debs’s 1912 bid for president of the U.S. However, his politics moved further to the left than the mainstream of the Socialist Party, and he withdrew in 1914. He was also a big supporter of the IWW, speaking at the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike, and supporting the IWW’s advocacy of direct action and sabotage. In 1914, he began working with the anarchist-influenced Modern School movement (started by the martyred educator Francisco Ferrer). During World War I, he founded the Liberty League and the “Voice: A Newspaper for the New Negro,” as radical alternatives to the NAACP. The Liberty League advocated internationalism, class and race consciousness, full racial equality, federal anti-lynching legislation, enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, labor organizing, support for socialist and anti-imperialist causes, and armed self-defense.
You can learn more about the Modern School Movement here: https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-spring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/
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Meagan Good Talks “Bittersweet” Ending of ‘Harlem’ and Season 3’s Surprise Motherhood Journey
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/meagan-good-harlem-ending-season-3-1236121627/
Celebrities Take Sides in A$AP Rocky Trial https://www.inbella.com/881287/celebrities-take-sides-in-aap-rocky-trial/ #50Cent #A$APRelli #A$apRocky #AzealiaBanks #CelebritiesNews #crime #Harlem #HipHop #Rappers #rihanna #shooting
Gail Bean Auditioned Every Season of ‘Harlem’ Before Finally Landing Role as Tye’s Love Interest
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Heute neu: Staffel 3 von Harlem bei Amazon Prime Video #Harlem #HeuteNeu
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Harlem, New York City (2011)
Loved the morning breakfast here, as I was leaving I saw these group of very well dressed friends also exit the diner. It was Sunday morning, so probably coming or going to church.
