Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maime Johnson, a principal from East Harlem, N.Y., says her exposure to principals from weakhier schools has deepened her resolve to light for equality in education...
...Along Harlem's 125th Street, the main artery of what was once the heart and soul of black America, a group of embittered black protesters demonstrates against the string of tidy Korean shops that now almost dominate the thoroughfare. In Miami, native blacks are beginning to feel like spurned foreigners as ambitious Cubans give the city a Latin rhythm and take over what were once bastions of black business. On the grim concrete playgrounds of Powelton Village in West Philadelphia, black children call their Asian classmates "chinks" and "gooks." The Asians, quick learners all, call the blacks "spooks" and "niggers...
...Harlem, the moms and pops who presided over family stores were once Jewish or Italian. When they departed, local blacks were unable to capitalize on the opportunities, leaving many of the stores abandoned and boarded up. During the past five years, entrepreneurial Koreans have taken over about a third of the stores on 125th Street. Last October a ruckus began after a black man was evicted from Ike's grocery, owned by the Shin brothers. A handful of black activists began a boycott of Korean merchants that went on sporadically for a few months. Says Lloyd Williams, a neighborhood black...
...months later cost her the title and all likelihood of immediate stardom. In the year since, she has been slowly working her way back, with a forgettable guest shot on a TV detective series last fall and a turn among the many performers at last month's reopening of Harlem's Apollo Theater. This week at Manhattan's South Street Theater, she gets to do her first musical comedy, an off-Broadway show called One Man Band. Williams, 22, plays several female figments of the imagination of the young hero, and she sings and dances "wonderfully," reports Director Jack...
...home again, for a night at least. Or so they seemed to be singing, brothers and sisters. A Who's Who of pop music was onstage at the Apollo Theater, the Harlem home of funk and soul and rock 'n' roll, where many of the glittering lineup got their start. Diana Ross was there, having helicoptered in after two shows in Atlantic City. So were Smokey Robinson and Little Richard and Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops and Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. And dozens upon dozens of others. Joining in the homage were such white performers as Rod Stewart...