Immigration Forum Held for the African Community
With African immigrants on edge, a forum in Harlem aimed to inform the community about their rights, reports AfrikanSpot.
With African immigrants on edge, a forum in Harlem aimed to inform the community about their rights, reports AfrikanSpot.
Manhattan Times profiles the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, recently designated a National Landmark.
The Nasry Michelen Day Care Center, the city’s first Dominican-run day care, has reopened at a new site in Hamilton Heights after it lost the location where it had provided child care for more than 35 years, reports Manhattan Times.
Clothing company Bébénoir, started by a husband and wife team with African roots, has opened a second location in Harlem, reports Amsterdam News.
Two years after nearly closing, the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary in Harlem – one of only a few orders of Black nuns in the country – will celebrate a century of helping children and the needy, reports the Amsterdam News.
The Amsterdam News checks in on the West 116th Street location of the Food Bank of NYC.
A young immigrant from the Ivory Coast has been surprised by life in NYC, and thinks about someday taking his computer science skills and returning to his country of origin.
A special kind of hackathon: updating and writing Black Life Matters entries for Wikipedia.
In time for the UN General Assembly, murals in Harlem make up part of Not A Crime, a global campaign that strives for education equality for the Bahá’ís, a religious minority in Iran, reports The Uptowner.
Hundreds of New Yorkers, mostly African Americans and Latinos, benefited from the Manhattan DA’s Clean Slate program at a Harlem church, El Diario reports.
Tony Hillery founded Harlem Grown to instill healthy eating habits among kids in Harlem. He does so with plots of farmland where kids can grow their own food, including one on West 134th Street that has produced more than a ton of fruits and vegetables, reports The Riverdale Press.
Listen to a report on the ScanVan visiting West Harlem to offer mammograms and other services in the community.
A Nov. 5 town hall on supporting the LGBT community in Harlem drew a large crowd, Gay City News reports.
The artwork of Alma Thomas, known for painting in bright colors using abstract elements and sights from nature, is featured in an exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem, reports Amsterdam News.
The partnership, which also involves the Organization Internationale de La Francophonie, will provide the New York French American Charter School with educational and financial support, reports Amsterdam News.