Tag: Protest
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Harlem Protest and Jet Magazine – 1963
In 1963 Jet Magazine ran with a story on a 2 month protest of wigs. This Harlem protest was organized by the Committee for Racial Pride. As Seen In Harlem On 3rd Avenue at 121st Street, a residential building rises.
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Criminal Background Checks
New York City Council bill 632 – a “local law prohibiting housing discrimination on the basis of arrest record or criminal history” – if passed, will prohibit owners, managers and brokers from inquiring about criminal record information in rentals, leases, subleases, or occupancy agreements at any stage in the rental application process in New York…
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Home To Harlem
Join the Maysles Cinema in celebrating our community: June 9-June 30, 2022“Home to Harlem” presents Harlem through an archival lens as both an actual home for Black citizens and families and as a location in the popular imagination of African Americans, by exploring the various intersections of documentary, amateur films, home movies, musical shorts, nontheatrical…
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1991 – Reverend Al Sharpton and Crack Houses
From July 1991, a video of Reverend Al Sharpton. Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network painted red X’s on the doors of crack houses and establishments that were selling drugs and drug paraphernalia In Harlem and Bed Stuy. NAN waged a summer campaign against drugs and violence in the Community. If you look…
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Just Looking Down
Walking past the Fred Moore School with it’s great (sanctioned) graffiti: I looked down and noticed, stuck in the concrete of a window well, a geodetic bench mark from the US Coast and Geodetic Survey: Locating a survey marker in a window well seemed a poor choice, given that the wall of the school restricted…
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Councilwoman Kristin Jordan Protests Proposed Civil Rights Museum and Headquarters For The National Action Network
PRESS RELEASE: City Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan, and concerned residents of central Harlem, will lead a protest on Monday January 3, 2022 to fight against the “One45” development, proposed for the corner of Lenox avenue and West 145th street. The proposal to construct two 363-foot-tall towers, a civil rights museum and new headquarters for Rev.…
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Harlem’s Night Market Returns
The Harlem Night Market returns to the historic La Marqueta this Friday, December 17, to Sunday, December 19: https://www.instagram.com/harlemnightmarket. Join us the last weekend before Christmas to celebrate the best food, makers and music from across East and West Harlem. This year we’ve expanded to include more vendors than ever in the stalls at La Marqueta…
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Fair Share and Safety Protest to Support Harlem’s Children
And Their Right to Attend Schools Free of Drug Activity Today at 11:00 The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association demands that the new drug site on East 126th Street be moved to a commercial or industrial zone, away from Harlem’s children. The Harlem Neighborhood Block Association believes that helping people suffering from addiction should not also…
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Rally to Support Harlem’s Children
And Their Right to Attend Schools Free of Drug Activity – Saturday at 11:00 Mayor De Blasio placed the nations first opioid injection site directly across from a Harlem Pre-School with no community involvement. The block where this injection site has been located is already completely oversaturatated with men and women in methadone treatment, and…
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MMPCIA Children’s Safety Protest
Public Art at PS109
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Sally’s Special Freedom Bus!
The Schomburg has a great image entitled: Sign for Sally’s Special Freedom Bus, to go to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom from August 28, 1963 The sign was located in the window of Sally’s Restaurant, in Harlem, and referenced a bus leaving 58 years ago today. Today that location is the site…
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March on Gracie Mansion
On July 10th (this Saturday) at 2:00 pm, Shams, aka Da Homeless Hero, and numerous other organizations are marching to charge the mayor with reckless endangerment of homeless New Yorkers due to poor conditions of the shelters and lack of social services for shelter residents, and also to demand fundamental reform to shrink the ever-growing…
