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DIED. DORIS TROY, 67, the melodically ambitious singer of the 1963 hit Just One Look, whose beginnings as a choir girl in her father's Harlem church inspired the long-running musical Mama, I Want to Sing; of emphysema; in Las Vegas. Under her birth name, Doris Payne, she wrote most of her own material, bridging gospel, soul and rock. As Doris Troy (from Helen of Troy) she sang backup for bands like the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd...
...their education and rebuild their communities by creating affordable housing. In exchange for their service, they get a stipend and spend half their time in classes to take the high school equivalency exam and prepare for college. Dorothy Stoneman ’63 started YouthBuild in 1978 in East Harlem and funded it initially by appealing to local organizations and later private foundations. But it wasn’t until 1994 that the program was given federal funding to support replicating the model across the country. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., was an early champion, according to Maria Vugrin...
...presents high school students with institutional hurdles generally associated with those of the inner city. And while a vast majority might think that students of this pedigree would benefit from umbrella affirmative action programs with diversity as their goal, the appreciable difference between an African American high schooler from Harlem and the average student boarding at St. Paul’s is not ethnic, but socio-economic or geographic...
...Jenn has a magnetic personality, and I’ve always admired the fact that she can be an amazing public speaker and leader, very organized and disciplined, and a very serious intellectual, and yet also Harlem Shake like no other,” says O’Brien. “She’s never afraid to have fun and be silly, and I think it’s that accessibility, more than just her accomplishments, that makes her so wonderful...
Since his childhood in Harlem, Dash has brandished the idea that he would come out ahead of the game. He would sweep barbershop floors and hawk newspapers to get money so he would have the very latest Fila sneakers. And there's that action-hero name. His mother Carol Young Dash raised Damon alone and worked a couple of jobs to provide a middle-class life for her son. Her labor, and scholarship money, enabled Dash to attend Dwight, a prestigious Manhattan prep school, and later a Connecticut boarding school. "I was around kids that had country houses and cooks...