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Rangel, who represents poverty-stricken Harlem, was one of 93 Democratic Congressional representatives who opposed the welfare reform bill, which cuts $60 billion in funding and requires recipients to find employment within two years...
Rangel, who represents poverty-stricken Harlem, was one of 93 Democratic congressional representatives who opposed the welfare reform bill, which cuts $60 billion in funding and requires recipients to find employment within two years...
Wilson cites the finding of a recent study of fast-food job seekers in Harlem by his Harvard University colleague Katherine Newman: there were 14 applicants for every individual who was hired. Among the applicants who were not hired, three-quarters had not found work a year later...
...only way he could live an openly gay life was to keep out of the public eye. Hajdu gives Strayhorn his belated due as a distinct musical voice and an engaging, if conflicted, personality. Strayhorn's taste and wit, his relentless drinking, his lovers, his activism in Harlem cultural life and the civil rights movement, his generosity--all are sensitively evoked. "He was just everything that I wanted in a man, except he wasn't interested in me sexually," singer Lena Horne told Hajdu. "We were in love, anyway. He was the only man I really loved...
...proposed middle school in District Four in East Harlem is currently scheduled to open its doors to 50 seventh-graders this fall. The catch? All those seventh-graders will be girls...