BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cole Thompson (@inwood_cole) on Jun 24, 2020 at 4:48pm PDT The Reopening. Sound likes the title of a horror film. In fact, it feels like one…
Uptown Love in the Time of Coronavirus
Photos by Emmanuel Abreu | @eabreuvisuals Text by Debralee Santos He can’t sleep either. Rest assured, visual artist, photographer and bibliophile Emmanuel Abreu has been kept up by the same loud bangs and bursts that light up summer evenings.…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kadir Nelson (@kadirnelson) on Jun 16, 2020 at 5:49am PDT Jamil Smith penned a powerful must-read in Rolling Stone on the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement and how…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Almost 28 years ago, Washington Heights erupted in righteous indignation over the police murder of José “Kiko” García who was only 22 when he was gunned down like a dog in the street in a building in the lower…