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...House last October, featuring B.B. King, Lenny Kravitz and Melissa Etheridge, who were introduced by Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey, and April's Divas 2000 concert, starring Diana Ross. And Hollywood helped with last year's movie Music of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep, which celebrated a class of Harlem kids who took their donated instruments all the way to Carnegie Hall...
...treatment decision yet," Giuliani confessed Friday. After he grapples with that, he will have to figure out how to deliver on his vow to extend the good times to all the communities of New York City. In his very first appearance as mayor-elect, in 1993, Giuliani went to Harlem and asked the people there "to give me a chance to show in deeds rather than words my commitment to this community." His deeds failed him. Now he has one final chance to make good on that promise, and he seems to believe that this task matters more than...
This astutely reported account of the rise of the late Secretary of Commerce from Harlem's black bourgeoisie to the apex of political power is a warts-and-all portrait of a smooth operator. Holmes, a former TIME correspondent and now the chief race-relations reporter for the New York Times, notes that Brown's strength was making connections between the black world he sprang from and the white power structure. His weakness, which Holmes unflinchingly describes, was an inability to resist the financial and sexual rewards that came along as he clawed...
...test, they said they found it hard to believe that anyone would steal the laptop just to obtain questions like the following: "It is 1937 and you are a young jitterbug. You'd like to jive (and possibly wail) to the latest 'killer-dillers' at the hottest Harlem dance spot. Where would you be likely...
...taco stand near his home this month, Epps shrugs off the fiasco as if the bomb's blast didn't faze him one bit. Now 26, he has appeared in half a dozen films in the past three years, working steadily since his 1992 debut as a Harlem teen in Juice made casting directors notice his quiet forcefulness, strong build and deep, soulful eyes. (Danes has called him "one of the most beautiful men I've ever seen.") He's wrapped shooting on acclaimed Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano's first American crime film, Brother, and this week stars...