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NEW YORK -- Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has made an appearance at a Harlem elementary school, reading her children's book to a group of about two dozen children.She was accompanied on the visit Friday to the Mahalia Jackson School in Harlem by her husband, Harry. The duke and duchess offered lots of hugs to students at PS 123, a school that services shelters for students without permanent homes.

So cute! Rihanna and A$AP Rocky packed on some sweet PDA while enjoying a late-night date night at El Puerto Seafood & Fish Market in Harlem during the early morning hours of Friday, Sept. 17. The rapper, 32, and Rihanna, 33, had big smiles on their faces as they held hands and entered the eatery at 3 a.m.. SEE THE PHOTOS HERE.

Deánna Giulietti, a Broadway performer-turned-TikTok star, who lives in Harlem and was invited to various Fashion Week festivities.

Teyana Taylor has revealed she underwent emergency surgery after she discovered lumps in her breast.Taylor’s reality television show We Got Love: Teyana and Iman, following her life with husband Iman Shumpert, saw the ‘Rose In Harlem’ singer open up about the surgery in its most recent episode, titled ‘A Family Emergency’.As reported by Billboard, Taylor’s surgeon, Dr.

Angelique Jackson Jeff Friday Media (JFM) has unveiled the lineup of official films in competition for its milestone 25th American Black Film Festival (ABFF).Among the narrative feature selections is the world premiere of Jussie Smollett’s directorial debut “B-Boy Blues,” an adaptation of James Earl Hardy’s 1994 novel, where class and culture clash when a college-educated journalist from Brooklyn and a homeboy bike messenger from Harlem fall in love.Actor and filmmaker Michael Jai White’s

Linda Fairstein over her portrayal as a racist and unethical villain in “When They See Us,” a 2019 series about the Central Park Five case.US District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan said Fairstein had plausibly alleged defamation as to five scenes, including that she withheld evidence, coerced confessions and directed a racially discriminatory police roundup of young men in Harlem.“The average viewer could conclude that these scenes have a basis in fact and do not merely reflect the creators’

Luke Cage star Mike Colter has discussed the Netflix show’s cancellation, stating he didn’t “have any closure” from the character’s final bow.The Marvel and Netflix series was cancelled in 2018 after two seasons, meeting the same fate as other collaborations Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, The Punisher and team-up series The Defenders.

Questlove’s Summer of Soul is up to 753 theaters as the doc about the 1969 ‘Black Woodstock’ concert in Harlem that debuted in two locations last weekend crossed into arthouse, commercial and urban venues.

pandemic outdoor dining program, Dine Out NYC, which created free al fresco setups for struggling restaurants around the city, including Melba’s in Harlem. Both men are passionate about getting the theater, and the city, back on their feet.“There’s a lot of discussion about Broadway coming back, which is gonna be incredible,” Rockwell said.

APlus Events in 2019. On Friday nights, she hosts weekly erotic paint-and-sip classes in Harlem where women are in control: Female guests are served drinks (and, if they desire, are massaged) by the nude male models they’re there to draw.

Monster (5/7)“Monster tells the story of Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder. The film follows his dramatic journey from a smart, likeable film student from Harlem attending an elite high school through a complex legal battle that could leave him spending the rest of his life in prison.”Oxygen (5/12)“Oxygen is a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja.

coronavirus-prevention protocols, it was a major step toward normality.“We had 7- and 8-year-olds up to 18-year-olds, and I have to say when you are able to move physically it helps you mentally,” says Sharon Cohen, CEO and founder of Figure Skating in Harlem. "In some ways, having skating was like a lifeline for these girls when so many sports were canceled.

Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names,” by NYU Liberal Studies professor Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. “Place names, the labels we attach to maps and the areas that we inhabit, are powerful signifiers of the history we emerged from and the ways that we navigate our present,” Jelly-Schapiro, 41, told The Post. But the geographer doesn’t overlook the nature in which the city was obtained.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorNew York’s SummerStage concert series has announced plans to return to live, in-person concerts and performances at outdoor venues this summer.According to the announcement, “Pending adjustments to current NYC restrictions, free music and dance performances will return to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park this summer and performances will also be held in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park/Richard Rodgers Amphitheater.“Performances will follow all state and local regulations

holding vigils and praying for the survival of a hip-hop legend as he remains on life support at White Plains Hospital.DMX was at his White Plains home when he overdosed on drugs, triggering a heart attack that sent him into a “vegetative state.”The complicated “Ruff Ryders” rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, had an unstable life before he landed in the Westchester County suburb with his fiancée Desiree Lindstrom and his 5-year-old son, Exodus.

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Can you believe it’s been 29 years since the 1992 film Basic Instinct was released?Lucky for us, we can get an intimate look at what premiere day looked like for Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone.“I hired a limo.

On Friday’s episode of CBS This Morning, Gayle King reflected on her final interview with the late Cicely Tyson, who died at 96 on Thursday. “I have to say this was not a doddering 96-year-old woman who came in there,” King said of Tyson, whom she interviewed last week at a church in Harlem.

During the same summer as Woodstock in 1969, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder and more played a series of free concerts in Harlem intended to be a celebration of Black pride. Called the Harlem Cultural Festival and attended by more than 300,000 people, the shows were largely forgotten, and the recordings languished in a basement for decades.

It’s summertime in Harlem in 1957 when we get to know the beautiful souls at the center of “ Sylvie’s Love.” Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) works at the register of her father’s record store but dreams of a job in television. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) is a struggling saxophonist who spots her, and a help wanted sign, through the store window.

Video has emerged the showed the moment an armed gunman was fatally shot by the NYPD on Sunday after he opened fire during a Christmas concert outside a church in New York City.  The video, which was about four minutes, was posted on Facebook by a person who attended the outdoor concert with his family at the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in Harlem.

An armed suspect has been shot by police after opening fire during a Christmas concert outside of the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine in Harlem.  An NYPD spokesperson told FOX News that police responded after multiple 911 calls for shots fired in the vicinity of West 112 Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and WhyHunger.“If some form of making music was your main form of employment before the pandemic, then chances are you really haven’t been able to work,” said Bacon, who has been performing with his brother, Michael, as the Bacon Brothers for more than 20 years.The venues highlighted include the songwriter's hangout The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem and the storied Troubadour in West Hollywood.

A$AP Rocky has donated 120 meals to families at a homeless shelter where he stayed with his mum almost twenty years ago.The rapper made the generous donation on Wednesday (November 25), personally delivering the food from Amy Ruth’s Restaurant in Harlem ahead of Thanksgiving.As TMZ reports, he dished out the meals to Regent Family Residence , – a homeless shelter that serves 83 families, where he stayed with mum Renee Black after falling on hard times in the early 2000s.Photos obtained by the

A$AP Rocky is giving back to a New York City homeless shelter that has a very special connection to his life.

Diddy — who legally changed his name to Sean Love Combs — revealed that he spent a valuable summer as a kid staying with Amish folks.At the Fresh Air Fund’s virtual gala, the hip-hop mogul declared, “My name is Sean Love Combs and I am a former Fresh Air Fund kid. I grew up in Harlem.

Mark David First she moved on up “like the Jeffersons,” from a small apartment in Harlem to a million-dollar-plus condo in New York City’s famously rich Upper East Side, and now it looks like standup star and “Saturday Night Live” alum Leslie Jones is headed all the way to another notoriously high-priced zip code, dropping nearly $3.9 million on a secluded home in the 90210.