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After graduating from high school in Jacksonville, Randolph went north to the promised land of Harlem, which fell considerably short of expectations. He took odd jobs, attended night school at New York City College, and started reading Karl Marx aloud with the same enthusiasm that he showed for Shakespeare. Feeling that he now had an economic explanation for racial injustice, he joined others on the traditional soapbox to orate, as he put it, on "everything from the French Revolution and the history of slavery, to the rise of the working class. It was one of the great intellectual forums...
Bitter words? Perhaps. But in the eyes of their author, they are tersely accurate. According to Michele Wallace, 27, a truculently articulate, handsome, Harlem-bred writer, the battle of the sexes in the black community verges on open warfare. Today's black women, she says, have in effect committed "social and intellectual suicide" under the domination of "unintrospective and oppressive" black...
Tuberculosis strikes all segments of society, but hardest among the poor who live in crowded, unsanitary conditions and subsist on inadequate diets. While the annual rate is only about 14 cases per 100,000 among the population as a whole, in Harlem, for example, it climbs to about 64 per 100,000. Alcoholics and drug addicts are especially vulnerable because their immune systems may have been weakened. Found in the bodies of about 7% of the populace, the bug makes only a small proportion of them...
...this quixotic journey, however, Ellison's unnamed protagonist had not yet resolved the paradox of his American identity. Even though he discovers the roots of his identity in Harlem ("I yam what I yam!" he says), at the end of his journey, he still has not yet discovered "the next phase," as he puts it, and so can only...
...wonders how deeply Waller resented the Harlem ghetto that, ironically, his music made so fashionable among Cafe Society. Ain't Misbehavin' might have benefited from a few lines providing some insights into Waller's character, or at least some biography. A brief description of Harlem during this period would be a welcome respite from the somewhat relentless pace of the nonstop singing. Nevertheless, Ain't Misbehavin' has plenty of moments you'll wish would never end. At the Wilbur Theater...