Tag: Patch.com
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Above the Rim
Above the Rim is a 1994 film co-written and directed by Jeff Pollack in his directorial debut. The Harlem/basketball movie featured Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur, Leon Robinson, and Marlon Wayans. The screenplay was based on a story by Benny Medina and focuses on city basketball and the fraught life choices presented to a young Harlem…
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In The Subway. In the 80’s.
The BBC has a great piece on photos from Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz. His work in the 1980’s captures the world underground in the subway – finding fashion, joy and love in surprising images. To watch the video see: Patch.com Reports On Very, Very Bad Apartment Buildings Patch.com’s Nick Garber and a colleague report on…
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Mayoral Debate Regarding East Harlem on Monday
Patch’s Nick Garber reports: Amid complaints that East Harlem has been neglected by the city government, a forum next week will force candidates for mayor to explain how they would serve the neighborhood if elected. Monday’s mayoral forum will be hosted by the East Harlem Community Alliance, a collection of more than 200 organizations across…
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OASAS Refuses to Acknowledge Their Impact on Our Comunity
A neighbor wrote to Governor Cuomo and OASAS recently, asking for them to address how the illegal drug trade (which congregates around the nexus of OASAS licensed addiction programs in our community) is impacted by OASAS decisionmaking. Zoraida Diaz (the OASAS NYC District Director) replied with a refusal to acknowledge the impact of decades of…
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James E. Hinton – Recording Black Activism
The New Yorker has an amazing video of work by the photographer James E. Hinton who made his name memorializing some of the most prominent figures of the civil-rights era. Hinton photographed not only Black leaders of the time (athletes, artists, politicians, thinkers, musicians – including Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, Mahalia…
