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10/21/2025

Inside Owney Madden’s Reign: Harlem’s Ruthless King of Nightlife and Crime ...

Owen Vincent "Owney" Madden, December 18, 1891 – April 24, 1965, was an Irish-American gangster who was a leading underworld figure in Harlem, New

10/09/2025

From New York To Milan: hiTechMODA Stages A Global Runway At Historic Cloisters ...

Following its acclaimed New York Fashion Week Season 14 showcase, hiTechMODA made a powerful European statement with its Milan Fashion Week debut at the

10/08/2025

NY Cannabis Board Preempts Local Laws, Advances Equity With License Approvals ...

The New York State Cannabis Control Board (CCB) held its monthly public meeting, continuing to expand and strengthen New York’s equity-driven cannabis

10/08/2025

Hip Hop Museum Honors Icons, Leaders At “Forever Home” Black Tie Gala ...

The Hip Hop Museum (THHM) will host its highly anticipated Black Tie Gala, “Building Hip Hop’s Forever Home,” on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at Cipriani

10/08/2025

Queens: Artist-Activist Toshi Reagon On Collab With NY Arabic Chorus ...

On Thursday, October 30, 2025, at 7:00 PM, Flushing Town Hall presents Toshi Reagon Meets the New York Arabic Chorus: A Sonic Coming Together.

10/06/2025

Lenape Ancestors Honored With Lunaapeew/Lenape Celebration ...

Remembering the Lenape People Living Legacy Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing (Land of the Lunaapeew) Collective and the Museum of the City of New York invite

10/06/2025

Reel Sisters Of The Diaspora Film Festival Announces Fall 2025 Lineup! ...

The Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series — the first Oscar Qualifying film festival devoted to women filmmakers. Will showcase

10/06/2025

NYC Department Of Homeless Services Public Artist In Residence Alex Strada Seeks To Destigmatize Homelessness ... https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/nyc-department-of-homeless-services-public-artist-in-residence-alex-strada-seeks-to-destigmatize-homelessness/

10/06/2025

The Mayors Op-Ed: Seven Straight Quarters Of Crime Reduction, Safer Streets, Subways, And Communities ...

By Mayor Eric Adam The Adams administration’s North Star has always been public safety. New Yorkers want to be able to send their kids to school, go to

10/02/2025

Scholars-in-Residence Program Fellowship 2026-27 At The Schomburg In Harlem ...

The Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture offers both long-term and short-term fellowships. They are

10/02/2025

Pulitzer Prize-Finalist Zora Howard’s Hang Time Comes Home To Harlem At The Apollo ...

This fall, The Apollo presents The Flea Theater’s production of HANG TIME, a searing and poetic work written and directed by Harlem native and Pulitzer

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Harlem news, lifestyle, history, and Renaissance - Harlem World Magazine. With over 83,000 weekly readers from around the block and around the world annually. Harlem World attracts a discerning audience with a shared appreciation and desire for quality, artisanship, heritage, fine design, and exclusivity.

Our knowledge and passion for creating the best Harlem content started with our founder and longtime Harlem resident Danny Tisdale. Tisdale is an award-winning visual artist, who began in publishing as a “newspaper boy” in Watts, CA, where he was born and raised. He worked on his college newspaper, before graduating from art school and driving 3,000 miles to Harlem. He found his first job in publishing working at Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, and numerous other publications before founding Harlem World Magazine in 2003. Tisdale served as an active member on Harlem’s Community Board #10 and held numerous sub-committee seats from Arts & Culture to Economic Development and Empowerment Zone, Land Use, and to Education. He was appointed to Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger’s Youth Committee.

Tisdale’s Uncle Charles Wesley Tisdale (pictured above), in the 1970s, became owner and publisher of the Jackson Advocate, founded in 1938, to create the best content for Jackson, Mississippians.

Charles Wesley Tisdale was born in rural Athens, Alabama on November 7, 1926, he was one of a family of eighteen children. Tisdale always wanted to be a newspaperman and began living that dream early: At age 7, he was working at a newspaper, pouring lead into molds in Linotype machines. An American to is core, his father Thomas Jefferson Tisdale, was a sharecropper. Thereafter, he supported his family through day jobs and yard work. Charles Tisdale remembers his father as a poet and songwriter, an intellectual who read three newspapers every day. Charles Tisdale’s mother, Winnie, was “a stern and courageous woman.” She insisted that her children stand up for their rights. She was a fierce defender of the family who “would shoot in a minute.”

At fourteen he was foreman of a to***co field in Connecticut and the cofounder of a local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He later returned to Athens, where he graduated from Trinity High School. At Trinity High School he was editor of the school paper and excelled in academics and sports. But when he and others tried to organize a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he was dragged behind an ox cart by white folks to punish him. In 1950 he received a bachelor’s degree from LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee, working as an advertising and whiskey salesman while in Memphis. He later earned a master’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago. An adviser for numerous companies, he found his true profession in reporting for the African American press. His byline appeared in the Memphis Tri-State Defender, Memphis World, New York Amsterdam News, and Chicago Defender. He edited the Memphis Times Herald and the Midsouth Times.

NPR Radio reported that “Charles Tisdale was a champion of civil rights, a dedicated journalist who owned the Jackson, Mississippi newspaper called, appropriately enough, the Jackson Advocate. Mr. Tisdale bought the newspaper in 1978. And over the course of almost three decades, he published stories that gave a voice to the less fortunate, bringing to life the impoverished state of some of Mississippi’s majority black towns and exposing corruption among law enforcement officials.”

Mr. Tisdale was committed to his community, as Ben Jealous, onetime managing director of the Advocate and NAACP president said about Mr. Tisdale,

Mr. Tisdale was committed to the people in his community, and he was committed to the integrity of his business.

The paper encouraged discourse and critical debate and understood the importance of giving a voice to community ideas in his column Tisdale’s Topics.

Activist Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, said,

For 20 years, Mr. Tisdale had a talk show on Evers’ radio station, WMPR in Jackson, where he often took elected leaders to task for not effectively serving their community. He said,

Like his Uncle Charles, Danny Tisdale and his team have a commitment to creating the best content that reflects the ideas of their readers.

Harlem World has remained fiercely proud of its heritage, its independence and its commitment to living their best life in Harlem is at the heart of what we do.

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