Harlem Leaders Among Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative 2012
Olajide Williams of Hip Hop Public Health and Marcus Samuelson of Red Rooster are among Fast Company’s 100 most creative people in 2012.
Olajide Williams, Founder and President, Hip Hop Public Health
The Hip Hop Public Health Education Center at Harlem Hospital was established in response to a need to create innovative and culturally tailored health literacy programs for the Harlem community. Their mission is to “reduce healthcare disparities through context-relevant, cost-effective, intergenerational educational interventions focused on disease prevention and health promotion.”.
One of the programs is Hip-Hop Stroke. It is an educational program developed by the National Stroke Association in partnership with Harlem Hospital Center. It teaches schoolchildren key stroke concepts and motivate them to deliver the message to their families and adult caregivers. They use multi-media strategies, “hip-hop” music, interactive raps, and dance to teach children to recognize stroke symptoms and take urgent action. Children are also taught stroke risk reduction strategies including obesity prevention through proper nutrition and physical activity and smoking cessation. They are given take-home information packages and assignments designed to trigger child-parent discussion about stroke and enhance parental stroke knowledge.
Marcus Samuelson, Culinary Entrepreneur
After a celebrated run as executive chef at Aquavit Restaurant, the Ethiopia-born Marcus Samuelsson has built Red Rooster, critically heralded and reflective of the area’s many cultures. Says he, “I bike and I walk every corner of Harlem, and see so much diversity that’s unexpected,” Marcus says. Then he builds a menu around those encounters.
Harlem is on the leading edge of whats to come.
Congratulations to trend setters Olajide and Marcus.
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Malcolm X Birthday Tributes this Saturday
The 87th Birthday of Malcolm X will be celebrated this Saturday May 19th, with several tributes taking place in Harlem. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd New York, NY 10037) remembers Malcolm X’s birthday with a FREE event presented in collaboration with the Malcolm X Museum: Black Journalists in the Tradition of Malcolm X: Telling It Like It Is, which will also honor the late Gil Noble. 5:00 PM-8:PM.
“Groove With Me” at West Harlem Piers Park
2012 Summer on the Hudson events are ready to launch, and this Friday May 18th from 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m., the “Groove With Me” youth development organization will get it started right, and it’s all for a great cause! Summer on the Hudson’s 2012 West Harlem Piers Park Programming at West 125 Street is sponsored by Fairway Market.
Groove With Me is a youth development organization using free dance classes and performance opportunities as a tool to instill in young women the leadership, pride, spirit of cooperation, creativity, joy and discipline needed to confront the adversity in their daily lives and throughout their future development. The program seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by nurturing youth, building self-confidence, offering positive choices, and providing a safe place to go.
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East Harlem Community Resource Guide
New York City officials have posted the latest “East Harlem Community Resource Guide,” which has loads of useful information for families living in the community. The guide provides many free and low cost resources for families in and near East Harlem.
The following topics are covered in the East Harlem Community Resource Guide:
- After School Programs
- Art Programs
- Domestic Violence Services
- Early Care and Education
- Family Support
- Financial Services and Job Assistance
- Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens and Farmer’s Markets
- Legal Services, Advocacy and Entitlement Access
- Libraries
- Mental Health Services
- Primary Care Providers and Clinics
- Substance Use Services
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11th Annual “A GREAT NIGHT IN HARLEM” at the APOLLO THEATER
REMINDER: The Apollo Theater will host the 11th Annual “A Great Night In Harlem” concert this Thursday night at 7PM-9PM, with over 40 legends of jazz, R&B, blues, and Rock ‘n’ Roll joining special guest Quincy Jones. Presented by Jazz Foundation of America, this event will feature performances by Macy Gray. Dr. John, Randy Weston, Bono, Bettye LaVette, Paquito D’Rivera, George Wein, Rebirth Brass Band, Treme Brass Band, David Johansen, Stanley Jordan, Sweet Georgia Brown, Essie Mae, John D. Holeman, Lakecia Benjamin, Grace Kelly, BIll Saxton, Kansas City Band: Steven Bernstein, Curtis Fowlkes , Don Byron, James Carter, Craig Handy , Victor Lewis , Geri Allen, Mark Whitfield, Art Baron, Jerry Dodgien, Kenny Davis, Ambrose Akinmusire , Frank Greene, Ray Anderson, and the organizers promise some other surprises as well.
Comedy stand up by: Darrell Hammond
The 2012 Gala Honoree: Claude Nobs
The Jazz Foundation of America (JFA) is committed to providing financial, medical and legal assistance to those great jazz and blues veterans who have paid their dues by making a lifetime of this music and find themselves in crisis due to illness, age and/or circumstance.
Apollo Theater
May 17th, 2012
253 West 125th Street, New York, NY (btw 7th & 8th Ave.)
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Children’s poetry workshop – 115th St Library – Harlem
 Tue, May 22, 2012. 4:00PM
Join the NY Public Library and Teachers’ & Writers’ Collaborative to create poetic tributes to our city. This children’s workshop will be held in libraries across the borough; the poems will be published in an anthology next year. This workshop builds on earlier NYC poetry workshops for young people. The poems will be incorporated into a single narrative called a Poem as Big as New York City, which will be published in Fall 2012. 115th Street Branch Supported by Auchincloss and Lotus Foundation |
Bike from Morningside Park in Harlem to Chicago
Gather in Morningside Park in Harlem on May 25th with NY Thrill Seekers and bicycle from New York city all the way to Chicago for charity.
Title: Ride The Challenge, From NYC to Chicago, for the Young Adult Institute!
When:
- Start: May 25th 7:00am
- End: June 1st 5:00pm
Where:
- Start location: Morningside Park West 114th Street, Manhattan, NY
- Finish location: Grant Park, Chicago, IL (subject to change)
Distance:
Total distance for the bicycle ride - 820.26 miles
Challenge Breakdown:
- NYC to Chicago, full 820 miles (nonstop), This means, no sleep, interval 5-10min breaks for food, maintenance. ONLY apply if you have most importantly THE WILL to make this entire ride.
- NYC to Chicago, 800 miles (personal challenge), This ride is broken down into 8 day tour, averaging 100mile daily rides. At the end of each day (the challenger) can decide to end the ride. Each rider will be able to keep their own speed, but you have to be able to keep up with main convoy. (No one is left behind)
Click here for more details including registration.
Google Offers is also offering a limited time registration discount. Click here for details.
And while in Chicago please check out the work of Dawoud-Bey, of which we’ve written. Details below.
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Sing Harlem Sing! Musical at the Dempsey Theater
The creators of the hit musical Mama I Want to Sing! have a new production at Harlem’s Dempsey Theater called Sing Harlem Sing! The show fuses a variety of musical styles including R&B, soul, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, and gospel, all set in a happening Harlem nightspot from back in the day.
Sing Harlem Sing! was first launched at The Apollo Theater in 2008 and had a limited run at the Dempsey Theater in 2009.
Here’s your chance to catch this exciting play, which is priced at $35 for general admission tickets and $30 for seniors and students.
Sing Harlem Sing! Spring showtime schedule:
Saturdays, May 12, 19, 26
Saturday, June 2
Dempsey Theater
127 W. 127th Street
New York, NY 10027
FOOD & DRINK BOULEVARD Event on Harlem’s Restaurant Row
Frederick Douglass Boulevard from 112th to 124th streets will turn in to FOOD & DRINK BOULEVARD this Thursday night as Harlem’s Restaurant Row welcomes yet another exciting event. Expect an evening of food, cocktails, music and entertainment at participating restaurants and bars from 6 to 10pm on Thursday, May 10th. Cost is $5 in advance and $10 at the door, a portion of the proceeds from this great Harlem event will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Harlem.
