Yesterday UMEZ and ACCIÒN’s New York subsidiary announced that $5.5 million in affordable business loans would be made available to small-business owners in depressed upper Manhattan neighborhoods, including Harlem, East Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood, representing some 40 different nationalities. UMEZ and ACCIÒN, along with a handful of large banks, aim to provide a foothold.… [Read more…]
January 23, 2007 by D. Bell
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Mr. Carlos Lezama, President Emeritus of the West Indian American Day Carnival Association has died the age of 83. The West Indian Day Parade was founded in the 1920s by Ms. Jessie Waddle and some of her West Indian friends in Harlem. They staged costume parties in large enclosed places — like the Savoy, Renaissance… [Read more…]
January 23, 2007 by D. Bell
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If you’re between the ages of 8 and 18 and want your opinion to be heard, you can be a reporter or editor for Children’s PressLine! Free and open to all children who live in the New York City area, we hold new member trainings three times each year. Once you attend a training, you… [Read more…]
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January 23, 2007 by D. Bell
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