News for Harlem and the Harlems of the World
They toasted their greed inside a Manhattan hotel, raising glasses in one hand while reaching for payoffs with the other. Valentine’s Day meant envelopes stuffed with cash. And Election Day meant trying to bribe their way onto the citywide ballot — or even into City Hall as Mayor Bloomberg’s successor. The corruption complaint that left […]
Conrad Murray continues to argue his innocence. The former physician of Michael Jackson, who was convicted in the King of Pop’s death and sentenced to four years for manslaughter, spoke about the case for the first time since being put behind bars through a phone interview with Anderson Cooper for CNN’s 360 tonight—the same day jury selection began for the Jackson family’s trial against AEG Live.
Suroosh Alvi held up his smartphone to show me a picture of a billboard. “This was sent to me from Sunset Strip in L.A.,” he said. “These things are popping up everywhere — it’s insane. They’re on yellow cabs in New York City, Austin, Texas, last week.” The black-and-white billboard image showed a ravaged street,
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EmblemHealth celebrated the arrival of spring with the Easter Bunny this past weekend. Families received a free photo taken with the Easter Bunny and enjoyed balloon sculpting and fun giveaways. Parents and their children spent the afternoon playing games, sharing healthy snacks, and connecting with other neighborhood families. The event took place at the EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care Harlem location
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All Georgia Braithwaite wanted for her fifth birthday was a black Barbie-themed party. “They look like princesses and fairies,” Georgia said while playing with two black Barbie dolls at her daycare one afternoon. “They look like me.” Her mom Karen Braithwaite, 40, a human resources manager, didn’t think that would be a problem because Georgia
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At the beginning of each tourist season, the entrepreneurs who pitch the thrill rides, hot dogs, sideshows and souvenirs at gritty Coney Island gather along its famous boardwalk to pray for two things: good weather and large crowds. Never have they prayed harder than now. Five months after Superstorm Sandy’s surge swamped New York City’s
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Neveah Mosher — a 13-year-old from the South Bronx — read more in 2012 than some people do in their entire high school careers. According to HooplaHa.com, the middle schooler reads 300 books a year. This is a goal she set for herself because she wants to be the first person in her family to
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If you see one play this season, make it “Kings” and you’ll see the grime and beauty of your soul on stage. Playwright Anna Governali has turned theater into an emotional brawl in which a teenager fights for his freedom armed with the graffiti he tags in each of the five boroughs. Setting out to become King, the
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In the nearly 11 years since researchers first rang alarm bells that women on hormone replacement therapy faced an increased risk of breast cancer, some have suggested that taking estrogen and progestin to treat symptoms of menopause might not be so dangerous after all. Though it was generally agreed that women who took the two
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Admittedly, it’s become a pretty tired topic for many of us Black women, considering the fact that we’ve found ourselves on the receiving end of some pretty depressing media-fueled reports these past few years concerning our allegedly lackluster crop of marrying prospects. Still, the questions sisters of all ages ask remains: where are the Black
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