Faith Ringgold, author of the award winning children’s book Tar Beach, will soon have a permanent home to preserve her literary and artistic legacy. The Faith Ringgold Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling will be located in a new housing complex in Sugar Hill provided by Broadway Housing Communities. Source: NY1 Related: Faith Ringgold
October 22, 2006 by D. Bell
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Located in an inconspicious brownstone one block from the acclaimed H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players Theater and the sophisticated Harlem Grill, sits a Harlem hot spot where jazz lovers are practically guaranteed a front row seat. Bill’s Place is located on 133rd Street between Lenox (Malcolm X Blvd.) and Seventh Avenue (Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.) The block is… [Read more…]
October 22, 2006 by D. Bell
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Stepping into the shoes filled by oral historian Studs Terkel in his book Working, a former Columbia University anthropologist followed the lives of 300 young people in Harlem who applied for a job at a local fast food franchaise. Chutes and Ladders by Katherine S. Newman chronicles the lives of the applicants from 1993 to… [Read more…]
October 22, 2006 by D. Bell
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The coolest dude in Harlem Originally uploaded by Tampen. Talk about the definition of UPTOWN flavor! Click on the link to read the back story about this shot.
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October 22, 2006 by D. Bell
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