Harlem Week 2024 is a celebration of Black culture in one of America’s most vibrant African American communities during Black August.
The Harlem Renaissance during the Jazz Age of the 1920s-30s defined American culture. It happened here and is happening again in the latest blooming of the Black Arts which we call the Harlem Renaissance 3.0. The Harlem Renaissance 2.0 was the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s-70s. A lot of who we are as Americans started here, once upon a time, in Harlem.
50th Harlem Week 2024
Harlem
The 50th Harlem Week 2024 celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Central Park
Harlem Week’s Great Jazz on the Great Hill brings jazz to the Great Hill in Central Park; on Saturday, August 10, 2024, from 4-7pm. This is a Jazzmobile picnic concert with live music for swing dancing. The nearest street entrance is on Central Park West at 106th St. FREE Google Maps
Central Park was an African American neighborhood before it was developed into a city park.
Morningside Heights
A Great Day in Harlem (Harlem Day) brings Harlem Week to the Ulysses S. Grant National Memorial in Riverside Park in Morningside Heights; on Sunday, August 11, 2024, from 12-7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
There are lots of activities including Summer Streets, Uptown Night Market, SummerStage, a 5K Run/Walk and Children’s Run, Jazz on the Great Hill, a film festival, a bookmobile, a Broadway Summit, Children’s Festival, job fair, and many talks and workshops. The entire community comes together.
Harlem Week
This tradition started in 1974 as Harlem Day to bring hope at a time when New York City was falling apart from deindustrialization after World War II. 1977 was the bottom and then New York City started to recover.
The list of co-founders reads like a list of heroes including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Ornette Coleman, Tito Puente, Charles Rangel and more. The first Harlem Day renamed Seventh Avenue as Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.
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