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...reinforces the 1857 Dred Scott dictum that no black man has any rights that a white man is bound to respect. African-American males feel it is open season." Not only males, either. Akos Esi, 36, a professional nurse who has immigrated from Ghana to New York City's Harlem, says, "I think it's a message white America is sending, that you can do anything to a black person, even with evidence against you, and get away with it." She vows to tell the children she takes care of, "You are black; the policeman is an enemy. When...
...street-tough life-style, Simmons, the son of an attendance supervisor for the New York City school system, grew up in a comfortable middle-class home in Queens. He was a sociology major at the City College of New York when he first heard a disc jockey at a Harlem club break into a rap. Simmons had already begun promoting parties during his spare time, and he sensed the commercial potential in the deejay's chants. "People thought of it as a gimmick, but I knew it wasn't," he says. He eventually quit school to promote rap full time...
THIS NOVEL, TONI MORRISON'S sixth, takes only its first five sentences to disclose the central plot. Within a few more pages, most of the details have been provided. The setting is Harlem, the year 1926. Joe Trace, 50, shoots and kills Dorcas Manfred, the teenage girl with whom he has been having a clandestine affair. When Joe's wife Violet, also 50, hears what has happened, she goes to Dorcas' funeral and takes a butcher knife to the dead girl's face...
Russell Ben-Ali, a Harlem native and crime reporter, was trying to find a woman whose son had shot a police offer the night before. He approached a gray, six-story, hollowedout building where the mother was reported to live. In one doorway, two men were exchanging money, but Russell was smart enough not to stare. Although construction worker were gutting some of the room in the apartment building, fire had already done much of the work...
...paper the next day, there was a three paragraph brief entitled "Suspects Troubled Past". Beatrice was quoted only as saying her son "spent a troubled youth." None of the readers could see the absolute poverty that this woman was experiencing on the west side of Harlem. The short article masked the airtight trap...