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After graduating from Harvard in 1964, Harshbarger took a fellowship at the Union Theological Seminary in East Harlem in New York City, where he spent a year working with church and community organizations...
After graduating from Harvard in 1964, Harshbarger took a fellowship at the Union Theological Seminary in East Harlem in New York City, where he spent a year working with church and community organizations...
...days after his son and namesake leaped to the stage to collect an Oscar, Cuba Gooding Sr. was in rehearsal for a gig on the Sunset Strip. Lead singer of the '70s group Main Ingredient, Gooding still performs in clubs and theaters. He says that in Harlem, where he was born, "your manhood was proved by your ability to make either the women scream or the men run. I was good at making women scream by singing." After the 1972 Everybody Plays the Fool went gold, Gooding moved his family to California and was a Motown solo artist from...
Others are calling for an end to gangsta rap. After Shakur's murder, Minister Conrad Muhammad of the Nation of Islam held a hip-hop summit in Harlem to encourage nonviolence. Now he wants to go further. "There needs to be one more murder," he says. "Gangsta rap needs to be murdered. [It] is absolutely genocidal. [It] holds out no hope. The lyrics can become like drugs, almost like a narcotic in a young person's life. We need rap. It's a critical vehicle for youth to express themselves. But the negativity is destroying what these young rappers have...
...time is treated as a precious commodity, and she is learning shortcuts. Did Warren Christopher have any tips on how to save time with her personal routine? "He can't help me," Albright says. "I wear makeup." She brought from her U.N. office her pictures and awards, her Harlem Globetrotters jersey and signed basketball. She took down the formal portraits of Dean Acheson and Cyrus Vance, symbols of the soft-spoken diplomacy Christopher cherished. In their place she hung portraits of Thomas Jefferson, General George Marshall and her mentor, the late Senator Edmund Muskie...