BY Led Black (@Led_Black) It is Black History Month people! Did you know that Washington Heights boasts a world class educational and cultural space dedicated to the late great Malcolm X and his valiant fight for civil and human…
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Locs Revolution has teamed up with Unveiled Unlocked and the FOLLICLE film production team, to bring you a Natural Hair event like none other. Saturday, Feb. 8th the event, Know Your Roots: Natural Hair and the “Movement”, takes place at Dinosour BBQ…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Nothing stops New Yorkers… This past Monday, February 3rd, with Mother Nature dumping almost 8 inches of snow on the winter-weary metropolis, cool creative folks from all over the city converged on the Lower East…
PEOPLE’S THEATRE PROJECT presents Domestic Disturbance FEB. 21, 22 & 23 An interactive and bilingual theatrical event about housing issues and domestic violence based on the real life experiences of the Uptown Action community actors.…
Saturday, February 8, from 2:00pm-6:00pm The life of Solomon Northup, subject of the recent film “12 Years a Slave,” is widely known. Less familiar, however, is the experience of his family during Solomon’s captivity. Anne Northup, Solomon’s wife, an…
February 5 – 10, 2014 Opening Night – Feb. 5th TICKETS ON SALE NOW! General Admission $25 Facing Our Truth: 10-Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege Playwrights: Dominique Morisseau, Winter Miller, Dan O’Brien with Grammy Award-Winner Quetzal Flores, Marcus Gardley, Mona Mansour and Tala…
Hydrant is a publication celebrating Uptown NYC, published by Fractious Press. The night’s reading includes some of the literary contributors to the first issue: Led Black, Yakira Tejada, Alison Loeb, and MJ Murphy! The first issue is being created…
Andrea Arroyo “Memories Interlaced” Closing Reception: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30TH, 6-8pm. The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial Center 3940 Broadway, New York, NY 10032 (@ 165th St. Train A,C,1 to 168th St.) Free and open to the public.…
WNYC’s Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration goes uptown to the historic Apollo Theater Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 3 pm. Presented as part of the Apollo Uptown Hall series, this year’s event explores the immediate future of…
Story, photos and video by Sherry Mazzocchi Led Black is an artist, writer, entrepreneur and publisher of The Uptown Collective. “I like to think of Dominicans as the first Americans,” he said. The first school, church and university were…