This awesome Juneteenth image comes to us from the one and only @artbydario.
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Photos: @photosbyloredana
Florist: @xoxomarg@raeofflorals
Words: @led_black
My dad likes to refer to Father’s Day as “El Día de los Perros” (The Day of the Dogs) because fathers, he says, don’t get the same kind of love and respect as mothers do. With that said, TODAY, we are shining a well-deserved light on some amazing fathers. Much Love to all the outstanding fathers out there grinding every day for their children, their families and their communities. Stay tuned for more in the Father-Hood series. Much love to @photosbyloredana & @juanbago for making magic happen…
Happy Father’s Day Familia…
The Arise Teen Summer Program is a Summer enrichment program for high school students presented by Boys and Girls Club of Harlem and the West Harlem Development Corporation. Includes $1300 stipend (participant must complete program). Priority for CB9 residents.
This summer, in the six week program from July 5-August 11, students will participate in a variety of activities and workshops in culinary arts, coding, urban farming, real estate, and more. With the guidance from experts in various fields, students will get a well rounded foundation in workforce development.
For more info: https://westharlemdc.org/arise-2023-summer-enrichment-program/
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Early Voting for the June 27 Primary has begun familia. This Primary will feature Rank Choice Voting.
To vote in the June Primary, you must be registerd to vote by June 17th; then, you can either vote during the early voting period between June 17th-June 25th or on Election Day, June 27th.
You can also request an absentee ballot; the deadline to request an absentee ballot online is Monday, June 12th, and in person is Monday, June 26th. The deadline to postmark your absentee ballot is Tuesday, June 27th.
More Info: http://NYC.gov/DemocracyNYC
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Our #TheGramUptown selection of the week comes to us from the homie, @dlxlxry.
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The 10 Talks Tech conference, sponsored by Community Board 10, the NAACP and the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, held at the venerable Schomburg Center on June 10 was a rousing success. Folks came from all over Uptown and beyond for an entire day of programming that was all about empowering Harlem’s future with technology. Our founder, Led Black, was selected as a panelist for a super relevant panel about Tech and Activism. Many thanks to the 2nd Vice Chair of Community Board 10 Charles F. Johnson for inviting us and for doing an outstanding job of moderating the panel that we participated in.
Click here for more pics from the event and enjoy the video of the panel below.
Do yourself a favor and watch Beba on Hulu right NOW! Beba is a searing and introspective coming of age story centered around Rebeca Huntt, who is both the subject and the filmmaker. Miss Hunt, who is an Afro-Latino with Venezuelan and Dominican ancestry, does not shy away from delving into the traumas, both past and present, that haunt her family. Rebeca Huntt is a fearless filmmaker and Beba is a testament to that fearlessness.
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By Sherry Mazzocchi
What do winged angels, ancient Assyrian temple gods and Dominican activists have in common?
All turn up in the work of visual artist Moses Ros is an architect by training and a print-maker by vocation. His work is appearing in four simultaneous shows across the U.S.: the Riverfront Art Gallery in Yonkers, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas and Alianza Dominicana in Washington Heights.
In the new project “Deconstructed Anatomies,” which opens Thursday, Aug. 4, in Yonkers, Ros’ work was inspired by art from the eighth century B.C. The ancient Mesopotamian city of Nimrud, located in modern-day Iraq, contained a palace built for King Ashurnasirpal II. The palace walls featured stone carvings of Lamassu – celestial winged lions with human heads. They were powerful deities protecting the royal Assyrian compound.
Read more: On wings and of will | Manhattan Times News
For more information, please visit www.mosesros.com.
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By Gregg McQueen
Essential care for essential workers.
Nearly 3,000 new child care slots are slated to open in underserved neighborhoods across New York City, most of which aims to serve essential and frontline workers and those whose work non-traditional hours.
At a press conference uptown on Mon., July 25th, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the state would provide nearly $70 million in grant money to newly licensed child care programs operating in so-called “child care deserts.”
The grants were derived from federal funding in the American Rescue Plan and are expected to help the new providers cover startup and staffing costs, access Covid-19 vaccines, and manage other expenses.
According to state officials, child care deserts are defined as census tracts that have three or more children younger than 5 for each available child care slot, or no available child care slots.
Read more: $70 million to combat care “deserts” | Manhattan Times
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Join comedy podcasters and performers Michael “Juan Bago” Diaz, Jerry “Elmo Difoca” Diaz, Jaime “J-Fernz” Fernandez and Ron Kain as they all hilariously break down and GO IN on some of the biggest stories of 2022 in “Uptown Collective’s First Annual Year In Review” sponsored by Yave Tequila.
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