Thursday, August 4, 2011

HARLEM NEWS AND VIEWS

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Top five reasons Kevin Durant is the best offensive player in the NBA
Yahoo! Sports
That's right, in a place called Rucker Park, on the streets of Harlem, NY, people were playing basketball again, until Kevin Durant(notes) got a hold of them. Then, due a transformative power few people on this planet possess, Durant turned defenders ...
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Yahoo! Sports
Family Of Disabled Man Who Died In Van Blasts AHRC Non-Profit
Gothamist
As investigators await the autopsy results of the 48-year-old developmentally disabled man found dead in a hot van in East Harlem on Tuesday, his family is criticizing the the nonprofit group responsible for his care. Alonzo Eason's body was found ...
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Gothamist
Brandice Henderson: Harlem's Fashion Row
Huffington Post
Harlem, NY, is no stranger to a movement -- and Harlem's Fashion Row is as significant (and stylish) as they come, thanks to its passionate founder/CEO, Brandice Henderson. Henderson is a force. Her vision -- to provide a platform for minority fashion ...
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For a Harlem Theater, Hope Amid the Hurdles
New York Times
By FELICIA R. LEE The "Henry V" that begins this Friday in the newly renovated amphitheater at Mount Morris Park is quintessential Classical Theater of Harlem: a gritty, hyperactive production of a Shakespearean drama, featuring a mostly black cast. ...
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New York Times
Dividing Line Between Upper East Side and Harlem Blurring
DNAinfo
(Facebook) MANHATTAN — The stark differences that once divided the Upper East Side and East Harlem at East 96th Street have softened over the last decade, according to 2010 Census data. Over the past 10 years, the Upper East Side — traditionally an ...
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Globetrotter tries a different kind of dunking and spinning on the Wildwood boards
Shore News Today
Now a guard for the Harlem Globetrotters where the dunks happen on the court, Blakes visited the Wildwoods on July 29 to see if he could keep with local employees at their some summer jobs. From making pizza at Sam's to slicing potatoes at Curley's ...
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'Millions in Harlem March' aims to stop US, NATO warmaking in Libya
FinalCall.com News
13 "Millions in Harlem March" to stop the bombing of Libya. "Where are we going to be on Aug. 13?" asked Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center, the main sponsors of the Riverside Church event. "In Harlem! ...
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Kevin Durant thrills fans at New York summer tournament [Video]
Los Angeles Times
The Oklahoma City Thunder star scored 66 points at Harlem's Rucker Park on Monday night and followed with a 41-point effort Tuesday night in a packed gym at Baruch College in Manhattan (Chicago Bulls guard John Lucas III scored 60 points for the ...
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ArtCrawl Harlem helps to dicover hidden artwork
7Online.com
HARLEM (WABC) -- Friends called him Romy, but the rest of the world calls him Romare Bearden, a master artist whose works incorporate vibrant elements of the African American experience. "His work is really stepped in classics, and he used myths and ...
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