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In a city pulsing with rhythm and resilience, Harlem’s historians emerge as both guardians and storytellers.

The esteemed team joins hosts Lynn Spivey and guest host Eartha Watts Hicks on a fresh episode of the Harlem World Magazine podcast for an intimate conversation that unfolds like a living history tour.

For nearly two decades, they have curated Harlem’s soul, preserving portraits, memories, and milestones that capture the neighborhood’s cultural heartbeat from the Renaissance to the present day.

RELATED: Join the screening of the film screening “Down by the Riverside” in Harlem.

This Black History Month, their vital work shines, transforming their efforts into a vibrant dialogue that honors legacy, sparks creativity, and ensures Harlem’s story endures for generations.

Lynn Spivey

Lynn Spivey is the author of Raising the Standards and president of the NAACP NYCHA Branch, championing 400,000+ public housing residents since 2010. She has been a NYCHA analyst since 1996, creating voter drives, economic equity, health initiatives, and youth empowerment in her advocacy.

Keep the conversation going—celebrate Harlem’s history, voices, and vision with us all year long.

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Harlem’s Glenn Hunter, Harlem Cultural Archives, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, talks storytelling, about their 18-year incredible historic work for Black History Month in Harlem and Beyond with host Danny Tisdale, on The Harlem World Magazine Show.

Glenn Hunter

Harlem historian Glenn Hunter, Harlem Cultural Archives, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director. Other co-founders Ken Sargeant and Keith Hunter. Glenn is a career educator who specializes in math and information technology. And an Adjunct Lecturer at Baruch College and a tireless community organizer devoted to Harlem.

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HWM Podcast ushers in the new year with a milestone celebration—the 75th anniversary of the iconic Harlem Writers Guild.

Joining us for this special conversation is Diane Richards, Executive Director of the Guild, alongside Eartha Watts-Hicks, Harlem World Magazine’s Executive Editor and Guild member.

Founded in the wake of the Committee for the Negro in the Arts’ closing in the late 1940s, the Harlem Writers Guild emerged as a vital space where African-American voices could shape, refine, and elevate their craft within a literary landscape that long ignored them. Its mission—to illuminate the experiences of the African diaspora through the written word—continues to resonate today.

Over the decades, the Guild has stood at the cultural crossroads of Black expression, contributing powerfully to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and nurturing literary giants such as Lonne Elder III, Douglas Turner Ward, Ossie Davis, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, and Sarah E. Wright.

In this episode, we honor the Guild’s extraordinary legacy—and explore how its mission endures at the heart of Harlem’s creative renaissance.

Eartha Watts-Hicks

Eartha Watts Hicks is a Harlem World Magazine contributing Book Editor the award-winning author of Love Changes, a member of the Harlem Writers Guild, and a New York City literacy ambassador for NYCHA/NAACP. For more information, visit www.earthaton.com.

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