Currently sitting here reading “Franco the Great, Born to Live”: The True Story of The Man Who Made Harlem Beautiful”, what an interesting life story, it’s always a pleasure to meet Franco on the streets of Harlem, but I never knew he was of Panamanian background until reading the beginning chapters of his book.  Franco tells the story of how he started painting the grey steel storefront gates along 125th Street in Harlem…one of many great stories in the book, stay tuned….

Malcolm, Adam, Martin and Friends Cultural Walk.

Malcolm, Adam, Martin and Friends Cultural Walk.

Black History Month 2018, Feb.18th - 28th, Harlem Heritage Tourism and Cultural Center partners with local businesses, mounting an exhibition “Malcolm, Adam, Martin and friends, a Harlem Street Story, If These Streets Could Talk" and complimenting multimedia walking...

Cultural Harlem Blog and Jog

Cultural Harlem Blog and Jog

Harlem is ideal for running and jogging, consisting of 55 city blocks, unofficially starting where Central Park ends at 110th Street, from the East River all the west to the Hudson River. Beautiful parks and wide open spacious...

Rudy Dee a great daughter of Harlem Happy Birthday

Rudy Dee a great daughter of Harlem Happy Birthday

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Rudy Dee a great daughter of Harlem Happy Birthday

Rudy Dee a great daughter of Harlem Happy Birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHJC3F4Idgg Happy Birthday to the late great daughter of Harlem, Mrs. Rudy Dee. Born October 27th, 1922 in Cleveland Ohio, but moved to Harlem at a very early age. Sitting thinking of what Harlem must have been like for her in Harlem...

Rudy Dee a great daughter of Harlem Happy Birthday

UK walking in the shadows of Civil Rights History

Students with us from the United Kingdom, all have studied the American Civil Rights Movement in their classroom they walk in the shadows of history. On April 4th, 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic Beyond Vietnam...

UK walking in the shadows of Civil Rights History

UK walking in the shadows of Civil Rights History

Students with us from the United Kingdom, all have studied the American Civil Rights Movement in their classroom they walk in the shadows of history. On April 4th, 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic Beyond Vietnam...

Cultural Harlem Blog and Jog

Family from Brooklyn with us in Harlem

Husband and wife from Brooklyn, wow, what a great picture. So much enjoyment. Gentlemen is a member of the esteemed and historic Black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha, and so was the great Congressmen Dr. Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., with...

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