Word: harlem
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...Popular ex-ESPN commentator Harold Reynolds and former Mets pitcher Al Leiter will man the studio, provide analysis and serve as the faces of the channel. The network was planning to eventually move into a shiny new office tower in New York City's Harlem neighborhood, but construction never started because of the credit markets' collapse. Instead, the baseball channel will operate out of MSNBC's old studio in Secaucus, N.J., which was supposed to be a temporary home until the Harlem building was finished. The space features a 9,600-sq.-ft. replica baseball field, replete with dugouts, outfield...
...rose to celebrity from the direst of circumstances. Born in South Carolina, in 1927, the spawn of an African-American and Cherokee woman who had been raped by the white owner of a plantation, Eartha Mae was jettisoned by her mother at eight. Sent to an aunt in Harlem, she quit school at 15 and lived for a time in subways - an all-too-familiar blueprint for emotional disintegration...
...continues.The book not only provides an in-depth historical perspective but also reaches the reader at a more emotional level with its many anecdotes of injustice in the North. Sugrue tells of the 1964 police shooting of a black junior high school student during a non-violent protest in Harlem. (Immediately after the shooting, the protest turned into a riot—“the largest uprising in the North since World War II.”) He paints a picture of a black family, aided by white liberals, that tries to move to Levittown only to encounter angry...
...first parade was a much smaller procession, created in 1924 by Macy's employees eager to celebrate Christmas ( that's right, it used to be a Christmas parade) and draw attention to their department store. The employees marched six miles, from Harlem to Herald's Square, dressed as clowns, knights and cowboys. Marching bands and animals from the Central Park Zoo accompanied the parade's first floats: The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, Miss Muffet and Red Riding Hood. The event attracted a quarter of a million people and was deemed a roaring success. Macy's decided...
After Rhee graduated from Cornell University in 1992, she joined Teach for America. She spent three years teaching at Harlem Park Elementary, one of the lowest-performing schools in Baltimore. Her parents visited and were stunned by the conditions of the neighborhood. "The area where the kids lived reminded me of a scene after the Korean War," says her father Shang Rhee...