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The Designer Traveled to Paris in Search of Inspiration for This Harlem Townhouse — And the Result is a Home That Embodies Color-Drenched Cozy Elegance

The interiors of this new-build brownstone have evolved from stark to soulful — and it’s a transformation that’s wonderfully artistic

Livingetc · Aug 24

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead: A triumph of molls, dolls and deadpan humour

After any chapter of Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy, I feel as though I am reading a particularly operatic story by Damon Runyon, complete with molls, dolls and Broadway-laden side-eyes. It is the kind of widescreen social drama that immediately reads like a screenplay. With pitch-perfect colloquialisms and deadpan humour, these…

Evening Standard · Jul 21

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead review – final part of the Harlem Trilogy is freewheeling fun

The grit and grandeur of 80s New York drive this rollicking story of an underground wheeler-dealer

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21

Vinii, Father of the House of Revlon: 'Voguing is about liberation and freedom'

The King of the Paris Voguing scene tells FRANCE 24 how the art form is about your own liberation and freedom. Voguing has been widely championed in France by the LGBTQ+ community. Originating in the 1980s from the 1960s Harlem ballroom scene, the dance combines fashion, posing and self-expression. In…

France 24 · Jun 25

From renter to owner, Sharpton locks in National Action Network's Harlem foothold for the long haul

The Rev. Al Sharpton is putting final touches on a new Harlem headquarters for his National Action Network organization

The Independent UK · Jun 23

Jewellery designer Marla Aaron's guide to New York

From cake fit for a princess and an insane Gotham Salad, to hot jazz and even the best monkey bars, the Harlem jewellery queen has the Big Apple crunched

Evening Standard · Jun 12

'Once Upon a Time in Harlem' has its day at the Cannes Film Festival, 50 years after it was shot

No movie at the Cannes Film Festival has had a longer road to get here than “Once Upon a Time in Harlem."

The Independent UK · May 20

Gun-toting drunks, boy-eating sharks and bloodsucking babies: the violent, brilliant stories of Eric Walrond

Tropic Death – 10 blistering, astonishing stories about racist, exploitative outrages in Caribbean ‘paradises’ – won him a Guggenheim award. Why did this star of the Harlem Renaissance die such a sad and lonely death?

The Guardian - UK · May 5

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding review – crowd-pleasing energy, charisma and expert comic timing

Jocelyn Bioh’s comedy – following a day in the life of a Harlem braiding salon – is filled with humour and hijinks

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29

A Muslim-owned thrift shop blends modest fashion, faith and sustainability

Kadjahtou Balde opened her shop, Modify Thrift, last May to offer modest, stylish outfits that don’t rely on fast fashion

The Independent UK · Feb 5