Tag: Photoville
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Photoville in St. Nicholas Park
Make sure to head over to St. Nicholas Park – St. Nicholas Ave. and 133rd Street – to see a fantastic display of very early photographs of Black Americans during and immediately after the Civil War. The display is hung on the basketball courts’ fencing, and faces St. Nicholas Avenue. All of the photographs are…
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Mayor Adams Endorses Inez Dickens For City Council
The Mayor commented that: “You [Inez Dickens] know the community so well. You’re going to bring the experience of Albany, the experience of being a council person, just a whisper away from being a speaker.” See coverage, HERE. Photoville Comes to East Harlem Make sure to head to Park Avenue (east side) between 120th and…
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Photoville on St. Nicholas Ave.
Photoville – the annual photography show in NYC – has photographic banners up in St. Nicholas Park, visible from St. Nicholas Avenue at 133rd Street. The show presents visiting cards – mass produced photographs of Black Americans in elegant clothing. These 19th century photos show a Black middle-class that had fought to uplift themselves and…
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Photoville in Harlem
Photoville – an annual outdoor celebration of photography has a couple of sites in Harlem: Location number 8 on the map (above) is on the esplanade walking and biking path along the East River, between 97th and 98th Streets. The photography represents an afro-futurist vision of presence in an imagined, retro future. The images are…
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Drinking Soda
How Calculated: Estimated number of adults who, on average reported having consumed one or more sugary drinks per day, divided by all adults in the area; expressed as a percent. Sugary drinks include soda, sweetened iced tea, sports drinks, fruit punch, and other fruit flavored drinks. (One drink equals 12 ounces). Diet soda, sugar free…
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Mail In Your Vote and Honor Wesley A. Williams
The image (above) from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is of Wesley A. Williams, a Black mail carrier/driver from 1915. Wesley was photographed under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, a notoriously racist American President who re:segregated the Post Office (from Vox – https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist): Easily the worst part of Wilson’s record as president…
