Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Immigrant advocates gathered at the New York Immigration Coalition for a press conference on January 28, 2020, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 vote that now allows the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) public … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell The NYC Department of Records and Information Services hosted a panel discussion on the historical relationship between immigrants and the city’s fashion industry on January 23, 2020 in Manhattan. The panel moderated by Bitta … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Sidique Wai held a community briefing on January 17, 2020 in Manhattan, to update African New Yorkers on the case of conjoined twin girls Husainatu and Hasanatu Jalloh, and to deliver two checks … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Birth advocate and reproductive justice activist Shawnee Renee Benton-Gibson hosted a community dialogue on maternal mortality in communities of color in honor of her late daughter Shamony Makeba Gibson on December 19, 2019 at the Weeksville … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Undocumented New Yorkers can now get a driver’s license thank you to the Green Light law enacted on June 17, 2019 and going into effect today December 16, 2019. To celebrate and help undocumented New Yorkers … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Weeksville Heritage Center hosted a Kwanzaa Celebration for the Brooklyn community on December 14, 2019 in Brooklyn. The celebration included vendors, film screenings, crafts, music, and dance. For more, visit: https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/ Related Images:
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell We are the endless roar, a cultural journey to Nigeria produced by Joyce Ademuwi, screened on December 13, 2019 at the National Black Theatre in Harlem. Joyce Ademuwi originally put the project on paper in 2015 … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell African Services Committee hosted its annual holiday party for clients, friends and family members at its headquarters in Harlem on December 13, 2019. Related Images:
Photos: Yaw Asare Aboagye Society for Africans in the Diaspora presented the Harriet Tubman’s Person of the Year Award to NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray at its 9th Annual African Diaspora Awards held at the Schomburg Center for Research in … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Drs. Rosalind and Leonard Jeffries Jr. celebrated the African legacy on the occasion of their 55th wedding anniversary on November 30, 2019 at the National Black Theater in Harlem. Related Images:
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell NAACP Mid-Manhattan Next Gen honored 4 Harlem’s Cannabis Trailblazers during a Marijuana Economics event on November 25, 2019 at Touro College in Harlem. The four honorees were Leslie Stone of Let’s Talk Cannabiz; Yasmin Hurston of … Read More
Photo credit: NYC Department of Small Business Services NYC Small Business Services Commissioner Gregg Bishop celebrated 10 years of Small Business Saturday with a corridor tour of Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn on November 30, 2019. With retail e-commerce sales amounting … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell The 125th Street Harlem African Artisans Market celebrated its 1st anniversary on November 23, 2019 with music and poetry but most importantly big sales that will continue throughout the month of December. The 125th Street Harlem … Read More
On November 22, 2019, hundreds of protesters gathered at the Harriet Tubman Memorial before heading to the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building Plaza in Harlem to protest against the increased police presence in the NYC subway system. Related … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell The holiday season kicked off with the Harlem Holiday Lighting on November 20, 2019. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. several businesses along 125th street participated in the festivities. Manhattan borough president Gale Brewer hosted a … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell A month after launching BE NYC (Black Entrepreneurs NYC), an initiative aimed at advancing Black entrepreneurship in New York City, NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) hosted on November 9, 2019, a community forum targeting … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell The Office of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams commemorated 400 years of Fortitude on November 6, 2019 at Brooklyn Borough Hall. The event titled “Liberating our Legacy: building our future” brought together members of the African … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Senegalese Chef Pierre Thiam, also author and co-owner of Teranga Restaurant launched his latest book The Fonio Cookbook on November 3, 2019 at the Africa Center in Harlem. Fonio, an ancient grain that grows in the … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) hosted the “Pardon My Vote” panel discussion focused on voting rights of formerly incarcerated and currently paroled New Yorkers on November 1, 2019 at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. Clarke said: … Read More
Photos: Isseu Diouf Campbell Nathalie Etoke, author and associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at CUNY Graduate Center, launched the English version of her book Melancholia Africana the indispensable overcoming of the black condition on October 30, 2019 at … Read More
