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East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue, 1912

Posted on February 3, 2013 by | 2 Comments

125th-Street-and-Lexington-Avenue-nycIn this black and white photograph taken in East Harlem, taken in Harlem on October 28, 1912, Election Day seems to be taking precedence over Halloween. Continue reading →

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Supreme Court To Hear Rangel-Espaillat Re-Count

Posted on July 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

From the voting booth to the courtroom. A Manhattan judge will hear claims that votes were tallied improperly in Tuesday’s Democratic primary pitting Rep. Charles Rangel against state Sen. Adriano Espaillat in the race for the newly-formed 13th Congressional District. Continue reading →

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Janee’s Summer Reads

Posted on June 17, 2010 by | 1 Comment

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Long is the Way and Hard: 100 year anniversary of the NAACP edited by Kevern Verney & Lee Sartain, and Earl M. Maltz’s Slavery and the Supreme Court are must-reads for those long summer’s nights for their display of history, that is aligned with Harlem residents’ past and how they depict influence into Harlem’s present.  Read Long is the Way and Hard:100 year Anniversary of the NAACP for July and Slavery and the Supreme Court for August and add some history to your Harlem Summer.

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Supreme Court Got It Wrong?

Posted on February 18, 2010 by | 3 Comments

News

After our The Danny Tisdale Show last week where we discussed the (not to) Supreme Courts decision to open the flood gates for money spent directly from their general funds to influence campaigns, with Dr. Linda Rock regarding her Gloria Browne-Marshall Read-In event at St. Philips, then we saw this article:

Much has been made of late about the hyper-partisan political environment in America. On Tuesday, Sen. Evan Bayh explained his surprising recent decision to leave the Senate by lamenting a “dysfunctional” political system riddled with “brain-dead partisanship.”  Continue reading →

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Supreme Salute For Sonia Sotomayor

Posted on August 10, 2009 by | Leave a comment

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As soon as the image of Sonia Sotomayor appeared on the three plasma screens inside Creole Cafe on Third Avenue at East 118th Street in East Harlem, there was silence.

Not the absolute silence that judges are bestowed when they walk into their court. At this gathering of proud Puerto Ricans, Latinas and African-Americans yesterday, it was a silence filled with excitement and anticipation for the historic Supreme Court swearing-in about to take place — one that most in the room thought they would never witness in their lifetimes. Continue reading →

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