By Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram ¡QUE VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN! ✊🏽✊🏽 Yesterday, on what would have been the Puerto Rican Day Parade (& Che Guevara’s birthday) mí gente marched from Washington Heights to @fsumc in East Harlem…
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By Gregg McQueen This time of year, the legends come to play. Come June, the courts uptown are typically buzzing with the annual Dyckman Basketball tournament. The iconic streetball event runs through August every summer and attracts elite players…
Que vaina. Check this out familia, Facebook took down our Black Lives Matter Uptown Pa’lante episode that premiered this past Monday. They can’t stop us though. We still on YouTube. Click below to check out the show that FB…
View this post on Instagram Father’s Day BLM Children’s March in Washington Heights this Sunday, 6/21 @ 2pm starting from Highbridge Park (172nd & Amsterdam Ave.) and ending at Fort Tryon Park (Corbin Drive entrance). All ages welcome! @kids4blacklives…
Today was a beautiful day in Upper Manhattan. A big group of us marched from Washington Heights to East Harlem/El Barrio to show that #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/H1VN0vIGCN — Juan Rosa (@JuanRosa_NYC) June 15, 2020 We invite you to subscribe to…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bjorn Bolinder (@findthelightphotography) on Jun 7, 2020 at 5:39pm PDT We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter…
Listen up people, ¡Uptown Palante! is back at a new day and time so get familiar familia. Mino Lora of the People’s Theatre Project and our very own Led Black will be helping to start off your week with…
Buenos días. The expression of rage, love and “lucha” to change is everywhere. This is my neighborhood! pic.twitter.com/1tOtuKpaiY — Luis A. Miranda, Jr. (@Vegalteno) June 6, 2020 The Uptown Tweet of the Week goes to the incomparable Luis Miranda…
Photos by Cristóbal Vivar Local residents gathered this past Sun., Jun. 7th at Marble Hill Houses and strode through the streets down into Riverbank State Park for a socially distanced rally. Organized by Senator Robert Jackson, the gathering was…
By Gregg McQueen “You always wonder, as a young black man, if that could be you.” Ramarley Graham was 18 years old when the unarmed high school student was shot and killed by NYPD Officer Richard Haste in February…