Word: harlemization
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...crowds alike; in New York City. Originally trained as a drummer, Hampton first tried his hand at the vibraphone?an electronically enhanced xylophone?during a 1930 recording session with Louis Armstrong. Offstage, Hampton was an energetic campaigner for the Republican Party and a developer of low-income housing in Harlem...
...this year's much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation--the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s--has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African-American groups--the N.A.A.C.P., core--that protested the movies...
...this year's much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation - the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s - has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African-American groups - the N.A.A.C.P., core - that protested the movies...
...Columbia, Stone is widely credited with raising the university’s image and handling much of its federal lobbying, as well as some of its rocky dealings with Harlem...
Moynihan excelled academically at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem and matriculated at New York’s City College after graduation...