Harlem

WATCH: What Happens When A WASP Visits Harlem

Posted 05.25.2012

You may remember Kate the WASP from her visit to Occupy Wall Street. Now, she's venturing into another unfamiliar territory -- the New York neighborho...

A Psalm of Baseball

Mark Thompson | Posted 05.09.2012

Mark Thompson

For many, baseball is a religion, and its stadiums, especially mine in the Bronx, serve as cathedrals.

PHOTOS: Cop Stabbed In The Head Is Released From Hospital To Applause

Posted 05.07.2012

Eder Loor--the NYPD officer stabbed in the head by a crazed man in Harlem-- was released from the hospital Wednesday to the sound of bagpipes and the ...

13-Year-Old Girl Gunned Down By Older Brother In Harlem

| Posted 04.25.2012

By Trevor Kapp, Jeff Mays and Patrick Hedlund, DNAinfo Staff HARLEM -- A man shot and killed his sleeping 13-year-old half-sister and critically wo...

Janell Ross

Why She Doesn't Pay Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.17.2012

Expecting a long wait and a large tax bill, Sonia Figueroa walked into the New York Food Pantry's temporary tax preparation site in West Harlem with a...

Art + Words = Change + Power in Harlem

Pam Allyn | Posted 04.16.2012

Pam Allyn

For so many of our families and our children, the challenges of living in this wonderful city are not subway delays or long lines at Starbucks, but putting food on the table.

Kehinde Wiley On the World Stage: A Conversation With the Artist

Kisa Lala | Posted 04.16.2012

Kisa Lala

By Kiša Lala Kehinde Wiley's Benediter Brkou (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold and silver enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Ke...

The Radical Camera

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.09.2012

Richard Schiffman

When the Photo League closed its doors in 1951, after being listed as a subversive organization by the U.S. Attorney General, it had already enjoyed an historic 15-year run, which helped to change the direction of American photography

Art in Earnest: Harlem-Based Artist, Tyson Hall

Eric J. Henderson | Posted 04.06.2012

Eric J. Henderson

Hall dwells specifically at the intersection of Art and Policy, his work aiming to touch people in the everyday. That is so cliché that it hurts as I strip the meaning of that universality down to a feel-good thing to say. I don't mean it that way.

An Education Success in Harlem

Kevin P. Chavous | Posted 05.27.2012

Kevin P. Chavous

The model for each student varies on their needs, and parents are encouraged to be active participants in their child's education. This program is determined to be the change in New York City. What's not to love?

Tourists Flock To Black Churches For Music, But Tensions Rise

AP | By MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.11.2012

NEW YORK -- The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists – most of whom had arrived late – a sea of white faces w...

PHOTOS: The Clash Between Tourists & A Famed Gospel Church

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 05.09.2012

NEW YORK — The stern warning issued from the pulpit was directed at the tourists – most of whom had arrived late – a sea of white fa...

When the Me Speaks for We in Harlem

Stacy Parker Le Melle | Posted 05.02.2012

Stacy Parker Le Melle

There are times we need leaders and artists to speak on our behalf: to witness and explain what we haven't articulated, to reveal the hurts that bleed us but may be hidden from us.

Julee Wilson

PHOTOS: The 'Beauty In Black' Project

HuffingtonPost.com | Julee Wilson | Posted 03.01.2012

It's hard to forget the ugly and disturbing Psychology Today article “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” written by...

Gene Demby

Can This Woman Defeat Congress' Most Powerful Black Lawmaker?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gene Demby | Posted 03.08.2012

Not long after Joyce Johnson posted an invitation to a campaign event on her Facebook page, several of the invitees received the following all-caps em...

WATCH: Charlie Rangel's Dance Party

Posted 02.22.2012

There ain't no stopping Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) now, at least not from dancing up a storm. Obispo Annette Jimenez, a New York-based Rangel fa...

Savoring Harlem: Watching the New Harlem Renaissance Come Alive

Marcus Samuelsson | Posted 04.23.2012

Marcus Samuelsson

Harlem is alive and thriving, more so now than ever before, and in many cases food is at the center of Harlem's new economic growth. Within the midst of great history and cultural diversity lies a food side of Harlem just waiting to be discovered by those foodies who seek it.

Cop Shot In Harlem; Suspect Dead [UPDATE]

Posted 02.15.2012

A New York police officer was shot a little after 4PM Tuesday inside the subway station at St. Nicholas Avenue and West 145th Street in Harlem. [UPDAT...

WATCH: Obama Sings At Apollo Theater Fundraiser

The Huffington Post | Adam Goldberg | Posted 01.20.2012

President Obama has a message to his donors: Let's stay together. While speaking Thursday night during a fundraiser at the historic Apollo Theater ...

Trymaine Lee

Obama Returns To Harlem, This Time With A Smaller Price Tag

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 01.19.2012

President Barack Obama tonight will go where no sitting president has ever gone before: the landmark Apollo Theater in Harlem. Obama will join the ...

John Rudolf

'Kings of Dust' PCP Ring Busted In Harlem

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.19.2012

NEW YORK -- A drug ring in Harlem that specialized in the sale of PCP and used an 8-year-old boy as a lookout has been busted, New York City police an...

Your Weekend Random-Ass Roundup: A Christmas Wish

J.D. Bell | Posted 02.22.2012

J.D. Bell

All I want for Christmas is to never hear about Michelle Obama's ass again. Unless it's at my barbershop. Now come, ye faithful readers. Gather round...

My Swedish Christmas in Harlem

Marcus Samuelsson | Posted 02.11.2012

Marcus Samuelsson

The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden and I look forward to the festivities each y...

Cab Driver Allegedly Rapes Passenger

Posted 12.07.2011

A cab driver allegedly raped a drunken female passenger early Monday morning in Harlem, police sources tell The New York Post. After being picked ...

Harlem Hairdressers Cut Into HIV/AIDS Fight With Awareness Campaign

www.dnainfo.com | Posted 12.02.2011

HARLEM — As a hairdresser for the past 23 years, Rochelle Walters often develops very personal relationships with her clients. That's why she has no...