Obama will preside over a $30,800-per-person event for about 50 people at the acclaimed Red Rooster restaurant on Lenox Avenue, reports the Daily News.
It’s his first visit to Harlem since being elected to the White House and his first fund-raising event in Manhattan north of 125th Street.
“It’s the first African-American President back in Harlem for the first time since the campaign,” Kevin Wardally, a Harlem-based political consultant, told the paper. “It’s a powerful symbol.”
Local officials told the Daily News that the president was wise to finally host a fundraiser in Harlem.
“It’s not like he’s a stranger to Harlem — when he was a student at Columbia, he used to work these streets all the time,” said Assemblyman Keith Wright. Read the full story at MSNBC.com.
