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Harlem Week
New York, NY · Arts & Culture
- When
- August 1–15, 2027
- Where
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at 135th Street · New York · NY
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A packed calendar of concerts, street festivals, film screenings, and the flagship 'A Great Day in Harlem' outdoor concert celebrates Harlem's culture and history across venues throughout the neighborhood. Running since 1974, it has grown from a single day into one of the country's largest African-American and Latino cultural celebrations.
The history within reach
- Harlem Weeksame spot
A packed calendar of concerts, street festivals, film screenings, and the flagship 'A Great Day in Harlem' outdoor concert celebrates Harlem's culture and history across venues throughout the neighborhood.
- Schomburg Center foundedsame spot
Arturo Schomburg, told as a Puerto Rican schoolboy that Black people had no history, spent his life proving otherwise and sold his collection to the library in 1926.
The hospital's superintendent rejected WPA murals by Black artists as too Negro in subject.
- James Baldwin0.1 mi
Born in Harlem Hospital to an unmarried domestic worker, raised by a stepfather preacher he could not please, and a boy preacher himself at fourteen.
Founded by Black worshippers who refused segregated seating downtown.