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Sweet Enuff Helps Kids Prevent and Manage Diabetes and Obesity in Harlem

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The problem is getting so bad that they had to create a new word for it: Diabesity. It means that so many people in the United States are becoming overweight and obese that they are developing Type 2 diabetes at an earlier age and risking getting all of the dire complications that come along with the disease. Continue reading

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Harlem Celebrates President Obama’s Reelection (photos)

Here are a series of photographs from around the web of Harlem celebrating President Barack Obama’s re-election on November 6th, 2012, the one above is from ABC News at Londel’s in Sugar Hill. Continue reading

Harlem Grandmother, Julia Hernandez, Found Murdered In Apartment

A 35-year-old ex-con was hauled into court Friday for the violent choking death of his young daughter’s great-grandmother in her East Harlem home.

Gregory Velez, 35, was charged with first-degree murder for the brutal slaying that left Julia Hernandez with 12 fractured ribs and bruises across her face and scalp, officials charged. Continue reading

Beyonce Crashes PS 161 In Harlem (video)

Last week, the students at PS 161 in Harlem were in for a bootylicious surprise during their PE class… Continue reading

Obama’s Kanye comments off the record?

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President Barack Obama‘s candid thoughts about Kanye West are provoking a debate over standards of journalism in the Twitter age.

ABC News says it was wrong for its employees to tweet that Obama had called West a “jackass” for the rapper’s treatment of country singer Taylor Swift. The network said some of its employees had overheard a conversation between the president and CNBC’s John Harwood and didn’t realize it was considered off the record.

The network apologized to the White House and CNBC.

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