A recent report from the New York City Health Department cites central Harlem as having the highest death rate of any community in the city. East Harlem also ranked first in the city for drug related deaths as well as for liver disease and cirrhosis. ALSO READ: WBW Honors: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. NYD.com reports: […]

NEW YORK-Afrika Owes, a 17-year-old Harlem girl, who attended the elite Deerfield Academy in Connecticut was arrested in New York on gang and gun charges. After visiting Harvard and Yale, Owes is now at Riker’s Island along with 13 other young people arrested in an NYPD gang crackdown on the 137h St. Crew in Harlem. […]

Last Friday, Father’s Incorporated had a dinner in Harlem to kick off the Year Of Responsible Men in partnership with the White House. Executive Director, Kenneth Braswell hosted the event and he spoke about his idea to use blue bowties to symbolize the crisis of fatherhood in America just as pink ribbons have come to […]

NEW YORK – Bobby Robinson, a fixture of Harlem’s 125th Street for six decades who died last week at 93, was remembered tonight by U.S. Representative Charles Rangel and about 100 mourners in a church one block away from Robinson’s legendary record shop.

A passerby made a grisly discovery on an East Harlem street Wednesday – a dead woman, stuffed inside a suitcase, police said.

(HARLEM-WNYC) Al Sharpton teamed up with the NYPD for a gun buy back on Harlem, New York City. WNYC reports: A gun buyback held in Harlem by the New York Police Department and the Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network brought in more than 350 weapons. Saturday’s event at Saint Mark the Evangelist and Memorial […]

Reps. Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters have more than just financial scandal in common as they face career-threatening charges before the House ethics committee.

The rumors started circulating soon after Howard Dodson announced this spring that he would step down as director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He had been forced out, some said. The 10 million holdings of the center, a research unit of the New York Public Library, would be moved to the […]

The Harlem School of the Arts has found the funding to stay open.