BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Even though I was born and have lived in the United States for almost all of my life, I never felt truly American until Barack Obama’s historic run for the Presidency in 2008. Until that…
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By Crystal Kang At a makeshift Inwood shelter at George Washington High School on Audubon Avenue, toiletries, blankets and clothing piled up Sunday afternoon. Volunteers hung a sign on the door, thanking would-be helpers for their generous donations, but…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) November 8th 2016 No nation had ever fallen so far so fast. Historians will one day describe the decline as ‘precipitous’. On Election night 2012, President-Elect Mitt Romney gave an acceptance speech that was brittle,…
Presenting the Uptown Tweet of the Week, our pick that represents the good, the bad, and the lovely in this week’s UC Twitterverse… [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/JAMyerson/status/263368768917483521″] Related: Hurricane Sandy: An Uptown Perspective Pics From the People: Hurricane Sandy – The…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Fredd Focus (@SHAkDEEZ) & Others… Uptown is alive with the sound of Hip-Hop. On Friday, October 19th, I had the distinct pleasure of attending the WHIN By Any Means Hip-Hop function at Empire…
Photography by Emil Baez (@_EBaez), Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy) & Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto)…
Photography by Wallace Flores…
A word from Washington Heights’ own Tess: You all know me as Tess…and my twitter blurb describes me best: Singer, Songwriter, Lover of loving, Pisces, Lefty, Only child, Corny at times. 😀 As mentioned in my video below, The…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The operative word for last night was renaissance. When I started using the term Uptown Renaissance almost 3 years ago to describe the emerging arts and culture movement that was taking shape in the neighborhood,…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “Latinos for Republicans – it’s like roaches for raid.” – John Leguizamo We are the new America. We are what tomorrow looks like. Nothing can stop us but ourselves. We are the proverbial 800-pound-gorilla in…