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...Fella crew put on a weekly talk show to plug his rap, clothing and film empire. Slouched in his leather seat, Dash grabs control of the CD remote and makes a selection. It isn't Roc-A-Fella superstar Jay-Z, with whom Dash launched the company from his Harlem apartment eight years ago, or even Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, another player on the Roc-A-Fella roster. Dash listens to a fiddle and starts to bop his head; he has settled on the 1980s cult hit Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, whose Irish lead...
...street cred here. But Dash doesn't need any. At only 32, he is CEO of a $500 million company. Beyond the fact that he's a hip-hop executive, Dash defies easy characterization. He loves the disco rhythms of Blondie. He has seen friends gunned down in his Harlem neighborhood, yet he attended an exclusive New York City prep school and played lacrosse in Connecticut. "Do you know how hard it was to come back to my neighborhood in penny loafers with khaki pants and a blazer?" Dash asks. And he recently produced comeback singles for the former Posh...
DIED. MARVIN SMITH, 93, Kentucky-born photographer who documented life in Harlem from the 1930s to the '60s; in New York City. He and his twin brother Morgan were inseparable--they married twin sisters in a double wedding and divorced them on the same day three years later--and together they photographed celebrities like Jackie Robinson, Nat King Cole and Sidney Poitier, as well as moments of everyday life in Harlem...
...during the day. Ganja, the wife of one of his previous victims, soon falls in love with Green, even after she finds her husband’s body in a meat locker. There is some greatness here, however, including the Doctor’s ridiculous trip to a Harlem blood bank and Ganja’s eccentric childhood memories...
...Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series, named for the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance, seeks to honor African American culture and history. The lectures are co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American research, the Department of African and African-American Studies and Basic Civitas Books...