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...ASPIRING CLASSICAL singer Walter Turnbull founded an after-school program for local kids--and soon forgot his operatic ambitions. Launched in a church basement, the Boys Choir of Harlem has performed for Popes and Presidents and on a slew of film sound tracks. It even spawned a music academy. Though the school closed and Turnbull drew criticism following a student's 2001 allegation of sexual abuse by a teacher, the choir continues to educate kids ages 9 to 19. "It's nothing grandiose or big," Turnbull said. "We just try to get kids to understand the importance of simple things...
...neighborhoods, according to the center, a Brooklyn-based research group that tracks the declared residency of convicts. More than 50% of adult male inmates from New York City come from just 14 districts in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn (with the most, about 12%, coming from East and Central Harlem) even though men in those 14 areas make up just 17% of the city's total population. Similar patterns can be seen in places like Phoenix--where one community, South Mountain, is home to 1% of Arizona's total population but 6.5% of the state's inmates--and Austin, Texas...
...live there and help them avoid the behaviors that land them in jail. That, in return, could save millions of dollars. New York State spends $42,000 an inmate a year. Multiply that by the number of prisoners who grew up on the same streets in parts of Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, and you get what Cadora calls "million-dollar blocks" because that's what it costs the state to keep criminals from those areas behind bars. It's hard to argue that this money couldn't be better spent. "If you had ... this block and that million dollars...
Black style in America isn’t as simple as wearing a dashiki or having a pair of doorknocker earrings. From slaves, who, with little choice in their attire, still asserted their personal style, to the elegant ensembles of the Harlem Renaissance, black style has played a profound role in sending political and social messages—often mixing dreams of affluence and modes of conformity, while paying homage to an African past...
EMMANUEL LIGGONS, 12, of Harlem, about Prince Charles, who played basketball with Liggons and his classmates during a visit to New York City with wife Camilla, part of a U.S. tour that also included a stop at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia...