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With shouts of "Fidel si, blockade no," hundreds cheered Sunday night as Fidel Castro entered Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. On his third visit to the U.S. since coming to power more than 36 years ago, the Cuban President is receiving a warm welcome. Although President Clinton is officially avoiding Castro, the 69-year-old Cuban president and former rebel was not hurting for invitations during the U.N. celebration. "Gorbymania, it seems, has given way to Fidelmania," reports Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth. Among those putting out the welcome mat for the Cuban leader: The Council on Foreign Relations, TIME...
This is the real problem with our justice system; and the result of the O.J. trial might be even more apathy on the part of whites. Let Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapro defend people who are being falsely accused in Detroit and Harlem, and then maybe some real justice will be served. But as long as only the wealthy can afford justice, or the rape of it, the poor will be the only ones paying the real price...
...HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS Kareem-led All-Star team snaps a 24-year winning streak
...Angelo can do better than that. Last year he produced and wrote the funky, hopeful song Overjoyed, which appeared on an album by the Boys Choir of Harlem. And the last number on Brown Sugar is a love song with an uplifting gospel spirit called Higher. "Feels like heaven when I think about you," he sings. "Sparking that love within my soul." It's the best track on the CD. When D'Angelo sets his sights high, musically and spiritually, his aim is true...
Manhattan's demimonde of the 1980s has ravaged many a fictional character, but few as mercilessly as Adrian Sellars, an art gallery owner whose troubles are mounting like so many empty bottles of opening-night Mondavi. Sellars is plagued by a lust for both heroin and a beautiful Harlem drug dealer. His forgery scam is going awry, his partner winds up murdered, and a Japanese mobster is threatening to kill Sellars and his family if he does not deliver a promised Monet...