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Manhattan A tribute concert dedicated to Greek folk singer Stelios Kazantzidis will be held in New York, under the auspices of the Greek Cultural Center. “We owe this to the greatest Greek performer,” said the Greek Cultural Center President, Iraklis...

The Greek Cultural Center, in collaboration with the New York Film Academy and Cineaste Magazine, will present a tribute to the memory of internationally-acclaimed Greek filmmaker Theodoros (Theo) Angelopoulos. Reconstruction, his first feature film released in 1970, will be...

The New Greek Cultural Center which was built in the Greek Community of St. Thomas in Cherry Hill, has been named in commemoration of 29-year-old Danielle Kousoulis.  She was killed in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. The Cultural Center,...

The Greek Cultural Center* is presenting its first production of the theatrical season 2009-2010 with a Greek comedy "MOMMY MOTHER MOM" written by George Dialegmenos and directed by Ioanna Katsarou. The play is opening today November 6th in Astoria,...

The Greek-American Teachers Federation, the Department of Greek Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and the Hellenic Paideia of America organized a day of celebration on March 10th to honor the Greek language. Greek has been declared as “an...

New initiatives in 2016 continue to take place at the Onassis Center in New York, as promised by the Foundation at the start of the year. The Foundation has currently on display new-founded Greek artifacts with an exhibition titled Gods...

Thousands of Greek Americans and philhellenes celebrated National Independence Day in Boston and Chicago by attending the annual parades on Sunday. The parade in Boston commemorating Greece’s march to freedom which began on March 25th, 1821 began at 1 o’clock just...

In its fourth annual celebration of Greek Independence Day in Nashville, Tennessee, the US branch of the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy and President DeeGee Lester welcomed Greek Consul-Atlanta Theodoros Dimopoulos in a ceremony at the Parthenon. The iconic...

The fate of Greek orphans of the 1821 Revolution in the US is but a footnote in the history of the glorious uprising against the Turks. Nonetheless, it is definitely a fascinating one. What happened to some children who lost...

With perhaps a bit of poetic license, The Metropolis of Atlanta’s Diakonia Center is, if not Mystras, then it is a Mystras-in-process.

Dozens of Greek American students will be visiting Greece in the summer through the Heritage Greece Program run by the National Hellenic Society (NHS). NHS announced that the application deadline is March 30 for two life-changing trips to Greece. The...

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American, emancipated slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek was written in 1881. The textbook offered Greek to English and English to Greek language practice as well as exercises on...

Incredibly, the very first wooden schoolhouse in the United States which is still standing was operated by Greek immigrants.

Several significant Greek landmarks in the USA reflect the country's rich Greek heritage. These landmarks symbolize the Greek culture and have become important community centers for Greek Americans across the United States, preserving their traditions, history, and architecture. Some of the...

A Greek couple married for seventy years that has lived the American Dream has recently returned to their village near Kozani in northern Greece. This is where they first met and fell in love. Mike Daniel (Michalis Daniil), ninety-five years...