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...just have to see Jesse," says Darryl Richards of East Harlem. "I think if Gary Hart or Walter Mandrel care cane people would...
...YORK Halfway between Third and Lexington Avenues on 101st Street, just on the border between the posh Upper East side of Manhattan and the Southernmost part of Spanish Harlem a group of about a hundred people are waiting for the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson...
...Early on, no one took Jesse seriously," says George Webber, a pastor in East Harlem since 1948. Webber notes that the newspaper originally was set against a Jackson candidacy, and only "belatedly realized that Jesse had strong support and could raise the hopes of the people...
Cesaire's poetry was clearly influenced by Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as by the works of the American primitivists from the Harlem Renaissance, particularly Claude MacKay. But it was the style of the French symbolists he most admired. The first line of "The Griffin" ("I am a memory that does not reach the threshold") is reminiscent of the opening of Nerval's "El Desdichado," and Cesaire's use of the Alexandrine meter recalls Baudelaire's poems. However, his exotic images were not correspondences to a higher world, but the very natural environment of Martinique and Africa (which...
FEBRUARY 21, 1965--a barrage of assasin's bullets bombarded the speaking podium at the Audobon Ballroom in Harlem and landed in the chest and body of Malcolm X. With his death came loss, mourning and a suffering that continues still...