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About HarlemLIVE

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Send emails to: admin@harlemlive.org

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Summer Youth Media Challenge PDF (450MB)
HarlemLive Application PDF (85MB)

Mailing Address:
HarlemLive
525 West 120 St.
Box 144
New York, NY 10027

Email:

  • Richard Calton: Founder /Exec. Director
    Email
    : harlemlive@aol.com

  • Melvin Johnson: Associate Director
    Email: MJohnson718@gmail.com

  • Gisely Colon: Director of Operations
    email: HarlemLIVEOffice@aol.com

  • Shelise Roberts: Editor in cheif
    Email: editorharlemlive@aol.com

  • Video: HLvideo@aol.com

  • Corrections: HarlemLiveWeb@aol.com


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Mission Statement
To empower a diverse group of youth towards leadership with experience and exposure to media and technology.

Overview

HarlemLive is award winning, critically acclaimed web magazine produced by teens from throughout New York City. It is a journalism, technology and leadership program that teaches students ages 13 to 21 how to run an online newspaper. The publication, "HarlemLive" (www.harlemlive.org), includes news articles, investigative stories, opinion pieces, personal essays, poetry, photography and video documentaries. The students organize events, conduct workshops and sit on panels, increasing their networking and public speaking abilities. The program is located on 123rd Street in Manhattan, the heart of Harlem's commercial district.

Teenagers run every aspect of the publication and tv show. They are assigned positions such as editor-in-chief, managing editor, photo editor, reporters, layout designers, Vediot editors, administrators and technicians. Adult mentors, including journalism professionals from The New York Times, Black Entertainment Television, ABC News, VIBE magazine, Time Magazine, and Bloomberg News guide them through the process. A partnership with Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism allows HarlemLive students to work one-on-one with Masters Degree journalism candidates as well.

HarlemLive teens learn by doing: They research their own articles, interview sources, photograph news events, and interact daily with their community. Through an ongoing "dialogue'' with Harlem, they encourage accountability in their schools, political districts and neighborhoods. In the process, they develop specific skills including desktop publishing, database management, digital camera technology, electronic messaging, web design and mass communications.

The students who participate in HarlemLive may not become journalists ultimately, yet because they are constantly unraveling complex issues of the day, they gain skills that are transferable into many arenas.

The results of the program have already been remarkable with over 90 percent of the year or more participants going on to further their education and 100% of the graduates are employed. The students are being accepted to the likes of Yale, Oxford, Columbia, Cornell and others. The program continues to be written about and to be featured in broadcasts by media outlets around the globe.


Background

HarlemLive, a nonprofit 501c3 organization, was created in 1996 by a former New York City public school teacher, Richard Calton. He was responding to a need: With dwindling funding for high school newspapers, fewer teenagers in low-income neighborhoods were being exposed to journalism at an age when they might become interested and motivated to consider communications a career goal.

The first students to join HarlemLive came from a few junior high schools. Today, there are more than 60 students enrolled in the program, hailing from over 30 schools throughout the five boroughs of New York. For three of its six years, HarlemLive was based in an office on 111th Street and 5th Avenue in East Harlem, sharing space in a computer center called Playing To Win, and before that, in a basement office at Teachers College, Columbia University.