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...renowned educator and painter, Jacob Lawrenceis regarded as one of the foremost American Blackartists of the 20th century. Born in 1917 inAtlantic city, Lawrence studied at the Harlem ArtWorkshop in New York from 1932 to 1939. he taughtat the Pratt Institute. Art School from 1958 to1965...
Bragg is positioned to someday assume such a role on the larger stage of local or national politics. He has powerful mentors, including the Rev. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of Harlem's influential Abyssinian Baptist Church...
Bragg reconciles both strong roots in Harlem and an elite educational background at Harvard and New York's private Trinity School. His mother, Sadie C. Bragg, says he was raised to "know who he was and live in both worlds...
Samual L. Jackson, Willis "Pulp Fiction" co-star, fills Vel-Johnson's empty partner slot as Zeus, a former cab driver, current Harlem store-owner and hater of thieves drug-dealers, and white people. After saving McClane's life early in the movie, Zeus comes along for the ride, helping McClane to solve the riddles and do the things that "Simon says." (The film-makers are careful to use every pun and nursery rhyme they can think of with the name Simon...
...speech sponsored by the W.E.B. DuBois Society and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Santiago described his personal struggle for identity growing up in Spanish Harlem as the child of a white Puerto Rican father and a Black Puerto Rican mother...