Tag Archives: Korean War

Military-Style Funeral for Ackeem Green Killed in Harlem

Posted on June 15, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The pulpit at the Harlem church where a funeral service was held Thursday for a recent shooting victim served multiple purposes: to mourn, to pray, to preach and to advocate. Continue reading →

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HW Pick: Home By Toni Morrison, Signing at Hue Man Books

Posted on April 12, 2012 by | 3 Comments

America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.

Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. Continue reading →

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