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Legacy Ball of Harlem

WBM & HRH Presents: The Legacy Ball Of Harlem– Celebrating The Contribution & Influence Harlem Renaissance Has Made In Fashion, Beauty, Music, & The Arts

World Bride Magazine and The Harlem Renaissance Hotel proudly present the Legacy Ball of Harlem—a celebration of Harlem’s profound influence on global fashion, arts, and music. This premier event honors the vibrant Harlem community while spotlighting the next generation of change-makers.

More than just an issue release party, the Legacy Ball of Harlem is a dynamic platform for engagement, empowerment, and opportunity. As we pay tribute to Harlem’s rich cultural legacy, we also look to the future—providing young talent with the tools and connections needed to thrive in an ever-evolving world.

Through WBM & MLM Represents, we are committed to investing in the next generation by offering internship opportunities to students from the Harlem School of the Arts and other notable schools. We encourage sponsors, small business owners, and industry leaders to join us in this mission by mentoring and hiring these emerging leaders—helping them build successful careers while keeping Harlem’s legacy alive.

The Legacy Ball of Harlem is a premier gala celebrating the cultural and artistic legacy of the fashion & style of Black fashion & Style, the arts, and the Harlem Renaissance. This iconic event will be held on May 5, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM at the Harlem Renaissance Hotel.

Together, let’s celebrate Harlem’s past, present, and future.

Guest of Honor: A’Lelia Bundes

A’Lelia Bundles is the author of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance (Scribner, June 2025), the first major biography of her great-grandmother, and of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, a New York Times Notable Book and bestseller about her great-great-grandmother, an early 20th century hair care industry entrepreneur and philanthropist.   She is the founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives, the largest private collection of Walker photographs, memorabilia and ephemera. A’Lelia worked in network television news for thirty years, first at NBC News where she was a producer for news and magazine programs, and then at ABC News where she was a World News Tonight producer, Washington, DC deputy bureau chief and director of talent development.

She is a former vice chair of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees and former board chair of the National Archives Foundation. She is a member of several boards that reflect her interests in history, journalism, political activism, social justice, the arts, and historic preservation including the March On! Festival, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Woodlawn Conservancy, GANGGANG, BIO (Biographers International), Indiana Landmarks, Columbia Global Reports and Indianapolis’s ReThink 65/70 Coalition.

Her articles and essays have been published in the New York Times Book Review, Variety, TheUndefeated.com (now Andscape.com), Al Jazeera, Parade, Ms., O Magazine, Essence, several encyclopedias and books. As a speaker and emcee, she has appeared at universities, corporations, and book festivals, as well as on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, PBS and BBC. She has served as an advisor for numerous documentaries, museum exhibits, biographies, scholarly papers and history texts.

Her book, On Her Own Ground, received the Association of Black Women Historians’ 2001 Letitia Woods Brown prize for the best book on Black women’s history and was named a Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s Honor Book and a Hurston/Wright-Borders Books Legacy Award finalist in 2001. This deeply researched non-fiction book was the inspiration for Self Made, the fictional four-part 2020 Netflix series starring Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer. A recipient of an Emmy and a du Pont Gold Baton for her television news work, A’Lelia has participated in writing residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell and was named to Forbes Magazine’s 50 Over 50 Impact list.

She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received a masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. @aleliabundles on Instagram, Threads, BlueSky and TikTok.

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