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...Mark Twain Intermediate School in Brooklyn was served with a desegregation order, mandating that the school maintain a student body whose racial makeup mirrored that of the community—at the time, 70 percent white and 30 percent minority. In subsequent years, Mark Twain was converted into a school for the gifted, and demographic shifts—notably, a decline in the proportion of white students—have forced the school to turn minority students away. Last week, however, federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein overturned the ruling: “The defendants have complied with the 1974 remedial...
...gangsta rap that the naïve have come to accept and the knowledgeable have begun to ignore. Released on February 19th, “Harlem’s American Gangster” was not compiled as a bona fide album but as a mixtape in response to Brooklyn-born Jay-Z and his 2007 album “American Gangster.” Hosted by Hova’s ex-partner in crime, Damon Dash, the mixtape represents a continuation of the beef between the two hip-hop moguls with Jim Jones serving as Dame’s proxy...
...acerbity is still very much in vogue. The issue for many up-and-coming bands—particularly for “indie” bands—has thus become learning how to sneer without sacrificing creativity.With their debut album “Oracular Spectacular,” Brooklyn band MGMT gets at least half way there. Founders Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden manage to come off as wry while avoiding unconstructive disdain. Over an epically constructed musical mise-en-scène, they make the following proposal on their single “Time to Pretend...
Other panelists included Daren Graves, a professor of education at Simmons College. Brooklyn hip-hop artist Talib Kweli, a main draw for the event, could not attend the panel due to a personal emergency...
...little lovingly. When I was in elementary school, before my parents discovered exactly what the cafeteria was serving us, I would eat pizza for lunch every day. Except it wasn’t the slim, New York style pizza my dad had brought me up on (he hails from Brooklyn). And it wasn’t the deep-dish kind that Chicago-folks swear by. No—it was what I would describe as reconstituted space pizza, in a personal-sized tin trays. But it was pizza. And I was an easily pleased second grader, who didn?...