Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying that for the past two years. at least one previously inexperienced candidate had been taken down to Red Top. A Freshman crew will also be taken either to Annapolis for the Penn and Navy race or to New York for a sprint against Columbia and M.I.T. on the Harlem...
Possibly to fight for Abyssinia, one U. S. Negro sailed on the Europa last week. He was "Harlem's Black Eagle," the "Negro Lindbergh," famed Col. Hubert Fauntleroy Julian who insists that the Emperor of Abyssinia made him a Colonel nearly five years ago in Addis Ababa (TIME...
Being "de Lawd" is no mere mimic part to Richard Harrison; it is a full-time job, onstage and off. For the members of the cast, he is just short of an actual deity. He arbitrates their squabbles and since they are mostly professional actors from Harlem, they periodically have to be lent money. Actor Harrison is known as "Two Dollar" Harrison to his colleagues because he is always available for a loan to that extent...
Harrison was employed by the New York Federation of Churches directing Negro church festivals in Harlem when Destiny and Marc Connelly caught up with him in the autumn of 1929. On the road Actor Harrison lives with friends he made years ago while on Chautauqua tours, or in Y. M. C. A.'s. He has not squandered a liberal salary. A large part of it goes to the support of an invalid wife, whom he married 40 years ago with his friend, the late Negro Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, as best man. A son, who struggles with a jazz...
That a Negroid nation should be menaced by spectacular Dictator Benito Mussolini highly excited the world's Negroes last week. Not only Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro...