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Dick Parsons, Captain Harlem To The Rescue

Posted on March 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

We just read a great article at Bloomberg Business Week about the 6 foot 4, Harlem jazz lover, wine aficionado and charmer Dick Parsons. Parson is not a Harlemite, but he has worked as a great Harlem ambassador saving more Harlem institutions then your average Harlem jazz lover.

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Lena Horne and Evelyn Cunningham: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Posted on May 11, 2010 by | 3 Comments

By E. R. Shipp

You know Lena Horne’s name more than you know Evelyn Cunningham’s, but they are both sophisticated ladies you’d like to have had a good ol’ Southern breakfast…

…with as they regaled with sometimes ribald stories about hard times and rebounding from hard knocks. Oh, did they leave a lot of folks “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (Lena’s song)!

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