News for Harlem and the Harlems of the World
By Derrel “Jazz” Johnson I attended the 2013 NHL Draft for the possibility of Seth Jones, an African-American and son of former NBA player and Brooklyn Nets assistant coach Popeye Jones, being selected with the number one overall pick. He would have made history by becoming the first African American to be taken with the […]
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By Jason Leach The NBA season is almost here and fans everywhere are excited! Many questions wait to be answered as the season approaches. Can Derrick Rose be the same player he was before tearing his ACL, when will the Lakers get Kobe back, how will Jason Kidd fair in his first year as a
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By Sana Hashmi What happened October 1? NY State of Health, the state’s health insurance marketplace, opened. You can learn all about it at www.nystateofhealth.ny.gov. Anyone who enrolls in a health plan between October 1 and December 15 will be eligible for health insurance starting January 1, 2014. The deadline for enrolling in the health
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By Lorie A. L. Nichols Have you ever wondered what you would do if you had a million dollars? For some, having a million dollars may seem like a far-fetched idea, not even worth thinking about. But the reality is that many of us have the opportunity to become “Self-Made Millionaires”. Becoming a “Self-Made Millionaire”
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By Linda Ricci & Tasha Williams While most young adults don’t know it, they are the “young invincibles” in the eyes of health insurance companies, hospital executives and the public opinion pollsters who test the attitudes of young people ages 18 – 29. According to the pollsters, these “invincibles” think they will never get sick,
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By Jason Leach If you come visit Harlem, one of the places you have to visit is Rucker Park. Harlemities and people with a love of basketball know all about Rucker Park and its tradition. Rucker Park was named after a Harlem teacher playground director Holcombe L. Rucker. Rucker started basketball tournaments back in the
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By Jason Leach The tone for the Giants 2013 season was set at the beginning of training camp when General Manager Jerry Reese said making the playoffs once in the past four seasons in not acceptable. With the Super Bowl being played in their home stadium in February, the Giants are set to become the
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By Jason Leach 2013 will be the 5th year of the Rex Ryan and Mark Sanchez era, and if it’s anything like the past two seasons, this will be their last year as members of the Jets organization. Here are the top 5 questions for the Jets for this upcoming season. 1. WILL GENO SMITH
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By Derrel “Jazz” Johnson I had the opportunity to see a show called Shida that opened in late July at Ars Nova (located at 511 West 54th street in Manhattan) and I was amazed with the performance and writing of the show. Shida stars Jeannette Bayardelle, and for those who are regulars on The Great
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By Alicia Schaeffer What I Loved: The acting leaves you with performances that are hard to shake. Many of the actresses seem to really capture their roles, yet barely have a former credit to their names. Stand-out performances by Lea DeLaria, Samira Wiley, Yael Stone, Danielle Brooks, Constance Shulman, and Vicky Jeudy. And then there’s
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