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07/18/2025

Family Day Celebration Brings Joy, Unity To Harlem River Houses ...

The Harlem River Houses will come alive with music and community spirit as residents gather for the development’s Family Day Celebration.

07/18/2025

AHL Foundation Presents ‘Two Uses Of The Past’ Exhibition In Harlem ...

'Two Uses of the Past' features works by the late Professor Changboh Chee and artist Seongmin Ahn at the AHL Foundation.

07/18/2025

United Way Of New York City Launches Build-A-Backpack Drive To Support Students In Need ...

BY HWM As summer rolls on, back-to-school season may be the last thing on many New York City families’ minds—but for United Way of New York City (UWNYC),

07/18/2025

Mayor Adams Expands Program To Improve Life, Address Violence In High-Crime Areas ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the citywide expansion of the pilot of “Every Block Counts,” a comprehensive program to address

07/18/2025

ICE On The Diamond: A Youth Baseball Team’s Encounter With Federal Agents In Harlem ...

By HWM On the eve of Independence Day, the sound of aluminum bats and laughter at Riverside Park was pierced by an unexpected intrusion. Six federal

07/17/2025

Harlem Youth Shine At 2025 PAL Playstreets Summer Season Opening ...

On July 9th, 2025, the Police Athletic League held its city-wide opening of Summer Programs with hundreds of children. The event took

07/17/2025

Questlove To Receive SummerStage Icon Award At City Parks Foundation 2025 Gala In NYC ... https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/questlove-to-receive-summerstage-icon-award-at-city-parks-foundation-2025-gala-in-nyc/

07/17/2025

Rep. Adriano Espaillat Joins Jorge Ramos To Discuss Immigration, ICE Raids, And The Path Forward ...

Yesterday, Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) joined journalist Jorge Ramos for a featured interview on Así Veo Las Cosas. Ramos’s new digital news

07/17/2025

Elected Officials File Amicus Brief Urging Court To Uphold ‘City Of Yes’ Housing Plan ...

The brief argues that 'City Of Yes' Housing is a response to NYC’s housing crisis and that blocking it would stall urgently needed progress.

07/16/2025

Revisiting ‘Dapper Dan: Made In Harlem A Memoir’
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Revisiting 'Dapper Dan: Made In Harlem A Memoir'

07/16/2025

DCAS Launches Totally Redesigned Citystore Website in Time For Physical Store’s Summer Closure ...

Today, the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) announced the launch of the updated CityStore website. Completely redesigned for ease of

07/15/2025

Harlem Students Spotlight Community Heroes In New Storytelling Project: ‘Harlem Is…People In The Community’ ...

Community Works NYC and New Heritage Theatre Group recently announced the launch of "harlem is...People in the Community."

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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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