Just so everyone is aware the entire month of June belongs to In The Heights. The film is now set to drop a week earlier on June 11 instead of June 18. Right on the heels of that, on…
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Crack changed Washington Heights like many other communities of color across this country. There was Washington Heights B.C. (Before Crack) and what Washington Heights became after it. Uptown went from being a tough, working class neighborhood to being an…
Do yourself a favor and click above for the best 4 minutes and change you will spend online today. República Dominicana – The Land beyond the blue is an absolutely gorgeous short film by Oliver Astrologo that lovingly captures…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Judas and the Black Messiah (@judasandtheblackmessiahfilm) Judas And The Black Messiah tells the true story of the betrayal of the charismatic leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by MLK/FBI (@mlkfbi) The FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, pursued an all out assault on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for most of the last years of his life. Everything…
Being that today is the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Fred Hampton our UC Must-Reads piece transports us back to 1976 for an excellent piece in The Nation that takes a long hard look on what went down…
The long-anticipated #InTheHeights film will be released concurrently in theaters and on @HBOMax on June 18, 2021! https://t.co/oKw2l2zG3e — BroadwayWorld (@BroadwayWorld) December 4, 2020 We invite you to subscribe to the weekly Uptown Love newsletter, like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter & Instagram or…
We cannot wait for Judas and the Black Messiah, a movie about the betrayal and assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party. Starring Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield the film will be in theaters as well…
Hector “Macho” Camacho was one-of-a-kind. This tough as nails Boricua from El Barrio captivated the boxing world in the 1980’s with his incandescent charisma, athleticism and swagger. Macho: The Hector Camacho Story is a hard-hitting look at the rise,…
Listen up people, you have until November 29, 2020 to catch La Madrina: The [Savage] Life of Lorrine Padilla at the DOC NYC film festival. A film by Uptown’s own Raquel Cepeda and Henry Chalfant, La Madrina is a…