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Harlem Gets Renewed for Second Season on Amazon
'It’s really well done and I’m honored to be a part of it,' said executive producer Pharrell Williams.
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Harlem: Strong Friendships, Fascinating Stories Lead to a Fun Season
Amazon’s Harlem is a bold love story for the support and friendship of four Black women.
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‘Harlem’ Star Jerrie Johnson Redesigns What It Looks Like to Be Black and Queer on Camera
‘Harlem’ character Tye shows us that Black queerness comes in all shapes and on screen presentations.
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Sandman, Be Gone! We’re Headed Back to Harlem for This Week’s Virtual Events
April, is that you playa? Readers, it looks like we’ve made it to the beginning of a brand new month. Spring has sprung, the stimmies are stimulating, the vaccines are vaccine-ing, pollen is polluting and most of us are still somewhat subjected to the four walls of our homes. (I gotta say “most” because I’ve…
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Voices of Harlem: Jermaine Dupri Joins Rémy Martin and the Harlem Writers Guild on a Poetry-Inspired Collaboration
The relationship between poetry and music is intrinsic. While all music isn’t lyrical and poetry isn’t musical, it’s difficult to imagine one without the other—and impossible to imagine Harlem without either. The New York City neighborhood that was home to an iconic “Renaissance” still reverberates throughout our culture today as a mecca for Black ingenuity,…
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Exclusive: I Spent a (Lady) Day on the Set of Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday
On a brisk day in Montreal, Quebec in November 2019, I entered the sound stage for the production of The United States vs. Billie Holiday. In turn, I also entered the eccentric world of director Lee Daniels, who noted that he chose Montreal because it was the closest resemblance to a past Harlem that doesn’t…
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10 Songs That Defined New York Rap to Me, From the Outside Looking In
I grew up as a ‘90s hip-hop head, which means that I have an ironically romantic view of New York City. Though my musical palette tended to veer south (where I lived) and west (where the sounds seemed fit for driving), I knew that New York City was what made it all possible. Also, I…
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Turning a New Page, the Schomburg Literary Festival Is Going Virtual—and Global—for 2020
OK, so let’s articulate the obvious: There will be no tents or stages at the Schomburg Literary Festival this year. There will be no road-tripping or traveling to New York City’s beloved Harlem or electric anticipation in the line for in-person author signings. There will be no flipping through the fresh, crisp pages of a…