If you write, blog, or just want to network with like-minded entrepreneurs, Blogging While Brown is the place to be. For eight years running, the conference has…
Constructed in 1934, The Apollo Theater has been the launching pad for musical legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder and Micheal Jackson. Eight decades later,…
The Affordable Care Act deadline is fast-approaching. NYC-based celebrities and community leaders banded together Friday to organize a #GetCovered tour through three of the city’s five…
 1. Stopping Corruption Before it Starts: Miami Dade’s Candidates Academy From sex scandals to fraud, we’ve seen a lot of politicians recently who have…
The death toll has risen to seven in Wednesday’s gas explosion that rocked a New York City neighborhood. One of the victims – who lived…
Brandi Johnson (pictured above) was awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages last week, after she sued her boss Rob Carmona (pictured below) over a four-minute N-word…
The Occupy Wall St. movement moved from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan to Harlem on Friday, as more than 100 people, mostly Black and Latino, gathered  for the first meeting of what is now being dubbed “Occupy Harlem.” See also: Occupy Wall Street Contends With Winter Weather In East, Arrests Out West The face of the […]
An HIV/AIDS prevention agency in Harlem has launched a new campaign concentrating on a demographic that is not normally targeted: black heterosexual men. Its campaign posters can be seen throughout Central Harlem, East Harlem and the South Bronx, where its other branches are located. The poster, illustrating a brawn, black male standing poised is currently […]
NEW YORK — Supporters of President Barack Obama have taken a page from the right-wing and started a tea party of their own. The group, “Harlem 4 Obama,” staged the tea party in order to garner support for Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Obama Raises More Than $86M For Campaign, DNC Obama’s Harlem Fundraiser Draws Big […]
NEW YORK — A 17-year-old girl from Harlem who attended the prestigious Deerfield Academy in Connecticut has been released from Riker’s Island. Afrika Owes was arrested and accused of transporting guns for her boyfriend, Jaquan “Jay Cash” Layne, in February and was incarcerated in Riker’s Island since then. The New York Daily News reports: Owes, […]
