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...125th Street and Lenox Ave. newspaper kiosk, I spotted a colorful brochure among a stack of giveaways. Multicolored lettering against neon orange implored: "Harlem: Your Uptown Spot to Shop!" Using this map of stores, restaurants, and services as a guide I made a random selection of locations and jumped to this new shopping challenge...
...Manhattan recently I attempted something that is thought to be all but impossible for a black man: I tried to hail a cab going uptown toward Harlem after dark. And I'll admit to feeling a new nervousness. This simple action--black man hailing cab--is now a tableau in America's ongoing culture war. If no cab swerves in to pick me up, America is still a racist country, and the entire superstructure of contemporary liberalism is bolstered. If I catch a ride, conservatives can breath easier. So, as I raise my hand and step from the curb, much...
...these achievements in her hometown of Jackson, Miss., where she was born in 1955 and began singing at age five. Her local experience was varied, but she didn't settle on jazz singing until her early 20s. When she arrived in New York in 1982, Wilson worked in Harlem clubs with names like the Red Rooster and Small's Paradise...
...flair for casting shows up ? in picking seemingly unlikely performers who will grow their roles and shape them with their own temperaments. Veteran Comic Foxx won his "Sanford" role partly on the strength of his only other dramatic appearance ? as a junkman in the 1970 "Cotton Comes to Harlem." He and Co-Star Demond Wilson now work with "Sanford's" Producer and Chief Writer Aaron Ruben, who is white, to "translate the scripts into spook," as Foxx puts it. "The writers are beginning to learn black is another language." (Meantime, Ruben is training black writers for the show...
...easy being green. More specifically, it wasn't easy being Mark Green last week, when New York City's public advocate--the early front runner in the race to succeed Rudy Giuliani as mayor--swept into an awards breakfast in Harlem, and nobody seemed to care. Green is the most quotable Democrat in town, but when reporters approached him at the breakfast, they only wanted to talk about the short, wispy-haired man who showed up 10 minutes later: billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, 59, the political novice who created a minor sensation last week by announcing as a Republican...