On Sunday, March 9, 2008 In The Heights officially opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers theater. The rest is, as they say, history. In The Heights would go on to be nominated for thirteen Tony Awards and took…
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24 years ago today we lost one of the greatest emcees 🎤of all time. From humble Brooklyn origins to the pinnacle of success, Biggie created a body of work that will live forever. And if you don’t know, now…
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By Emily Nadal View this post on Instagram A post shared by Manhattan Times (@manhattantimes) Lenin Sánchez has lived in Washington Heights his whole life. Except for the two years he spent at boarding school in Georgia as a…
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If $15 an hour sounds like too much, please ruminate on the fact that Jeff Bezos makes $2,489 every second. — Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 4, 2021 We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uptown Collective (@uptowncollectiv) So, this is how it happened. This past Tuesday, I went to www.myconnectnyc.org at approximately 3:50 pm. I created my account and had an appointment for 4:45…
In this new original documentary from theGrio, senior correspondent Natasha S. Alford (@natashasalford), traveled to Loiza, Puerto Rico during the 2019 summer of political unrest, where protesters ousted their governor. Through interviews with locals residents, scholars, and historians, Alford…
Listen up folks, if you are a Hip-Hop fan then you NEED to see Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell on Netflix immediately. We are die-hard Biggie heads and we learned a ton of new information about arguably…
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