{"id":306426,"date":"2026-07-27T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:45:30","slug":"harlem-week-returns-to-celebrate-culture-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306426\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Week returns to celebrate culture and history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city is getting ready to celebrate the history, culture and contributions of Harlem as the annual Harlem Week celebration returns next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its 52nd year, Harlem Week began in 1974 as a way to highlight the neighborhood\u2019s rich legacy in music, art, fashion, food and culture. Organizers say the celebration is focused on preserving Harlem\u2019s history while creating opportunities for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s events include live performances, a film festival, family activities, virtual programming, community conversations and a job fair.<\/p>\n<p>Tamiko Evans, second vice chair of Harlem Week, joined \u201cWeekends On 1\u201d to preview this year\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city is getting ready to celebrate the history, culture and contributions of Harlem as the annual Harlem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,128,9,24,12,63,5252,129,131,130,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-306426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-rocco-vertuccio","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}