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...high school teachers nicknamed Smith "Prince" for his knack for charming his way out of trouble. It was at a party in the basement of a neighborhood DJ, "Jazzy" Jeff Townes, that Smith's magnetism first paid off professionally. He won over Townes and the DJ's manager, James Lassiter, who has steered Smith's career for the past 22 years and who runs Overbrook Entertainment, the production company named for the high school they attended. Before Smith finished his senior year, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince released their first album, and Smith decided to forgo college...
...express emotions, to be able to use the movement in time and in a space to cause a reaction, to communicate,” he said.D’Amboise traced his own transformation from a seven-year-old junior lookout for petty street crime in his childhood neighborhood of Washington Heights into a company member of New York City Ballet by age 15 and principal dancer there for over three decades. He has enjoyed a second career directing the National Dance Institute (NDI), a non-profit arts education organization he founded in 1976.In an effort to keep...
...Back home in his Detroit neighborhood, music blared in the streets. Old folks chatted on their front steps, and men squatted on the curb to play dice...
...going to Harvard for so many other people,” he says. “People in my family, people in my neighborhood, people in my city, people of my race...
...long ago, Medellin, not Baghdad, was considered the world's most violent city. Now where gun battles between drug gangs once raged in the Santo Domingo-Savio neighborhood sits a shiny new library: a perfect place to enjoy a book, and an even better place to witness the transformation of a city and of an entire country, Colombia, once known as the global capital of murder, kidnap and cocaine...