Harlem stories:
'Precious': Hell Up In Harlem, By Kurt Loder
Nov 6th, 2009 - MTV
Claireece Jones is one of life's write-offs: an illiterate, junk-food-fat Harlem teenager living on welfare with her viciously abusive mother and, from time to time, her father, who drops by to rape her...Review: 'Precious' displays power of film
Nov 6th, 2009 - CNN
Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone we might otherwise feel perilously far from.
The title character of "Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire" is a hushed...Reverend Al Sharpton Leads Michael Jackson Memorial At Apollo Theater
Jun 30th, 2009 - MTV
NEW YORK - On Tuesday (June 30), the Reverend Al Sharpton led a memorial for Michael Jackson at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Thousands of fans lined up as early as 5 a.m., according to reports...
Jackson fans pack Harlem for Apollo memorial
Jun 30th, 2009 - CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Fans of Michael Jackson lined the streets outside Harlem's Apollo Theater on Tuesday for a chance to pay their respects to the late "King of Pop" at the hall that helped launch his career.
Apollo Theater to pay tribute to Michael Jackson
Jun 27th, 2009 - Washington Post
NEW YORK -- The Harlem theater that helped launch Michael Jackson's career plans a star-studded musical memorial on the same stage where he and his brothers once did 31 shows in one week...
Harlem videos from YouTube:
3:57Harlem - Kora
Harlem - Kora
5:25Bre's Walking Tour of Harlem
Bre, a lifelong resident of Harlem and Ford model, gives a tour of her neighborhood and the places most important to her. Please visit www.fordmodels.tv for more great videos.
4:32Immortal Technique- Harlem Streets
WATCH IT IN FULL SCREEN SO U CAN READ WUT IT SAYS AT THE END ABOUT THE PYRAMID....if u dont like it then dont waste your time on watching it and talking shit INFO ABOUT THE PYRAMID: the pyramid represents the past.Note that the capstone of this pyramid is not in place ...
4:09Harlem - Biegne
Z goscinnym udzialem Macka Balcara z Dzemu
Harlem from WikiPedia:
Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, long known as a major African-American residential, cultural, and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658. It is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands.
Harlem has been defined by a series of boom-and-bust cycles, with significant ethnic shifts accompanying each cycle. Black residents began to arrive en masse in 1904, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, the neighborhood was the locus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic and professional works without precedent in the American black community. However, starting with the job losses of the Great Depression and especially after World War II with deindustrialization in New York, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly.
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