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Gibson grew up in Harlem, sharp enough to shoot pool with the local sharks and tall enough to play basketball with the boys. She was impossible to beat at paddle ball, a skill that evolved into her powerful game of tennis. She admitted no equals in the segregated leagues. And soon her talents were grudgingly admitted by the whites-only tournaments. But even while winning, she was denied rooms at hotels. One refused to book reservations for a luncheon in her honor. She claimed not to care, telling TIME in 1957, "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that...
...Dandridge sang of "Ten little jitterbug boys" with Louis Armstrong in Going Places and about the "Harlem Sandman" ("He makes you Count Basie/ Instead of countin' sheep") in Hit Parade of 1943. She starred in the video-jukebox "soundies," dolled up in jewels for Easy Street or jiving expertly in Swing for Your Supper ("They made me rock 'n' roll...brought me up on good ol' rhythmatic"). In the 1940 Sun Valley Serenade she introduced Chattanooga Choo Choo, dancing with the great Nicholas brothers. By then Dottie was a solo act. Much later, Vivian worked as her star sister...
DIED. AKIL AL-JUNDI, 56, onetime Harlem street thug who was the lead plaintiff in a class-action lodged by mistreated Attica prisoners and who later became a passionate and respected legal advocate for young criminals; of complications from diabetes; in New York City...
...first part was a cinch: take the M60 from Ground Transportation to Manhattan. A short ride later, and there I was, on 125th Street and Lexington. Getting to 3rd Ave. and 45th Street from East Harlem? Piece of cake. Just transfer to a downtown bus, and look, there one is coming down Lexington now. OK, so the people on the bus gave me funny looks as I tucked my laptop between my feet and opened my complimentary Shuttle edition of the latest American Prospect: A Journal of the Liberal Imagination, but whatever; this is my public transportation...
Combs: I was middle class growing up. I grew up [in Harlem until age 12, in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., afterward] with white kids and Chinese kids. I grew up listening to Ozzy Osbourne and Rapper's Delight...