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...show (MTV's Wade Robson Project) and a film (You Got Served), and it even popped up at the Vatican (the Pope recently blessed an acrobatic, b-boy performance). "It's funny that it's being recognized on this level now, because it's been around, dominating in the urban centers for 30 years," says Crazy Legs, 38, a choreographer and ringleader of New York City's Rock Steady Crew, a hip-hop dance group assembled on the streets of the Bronx in the late 1970s. "The hip-hop world's emergence has opened the public's eyes...
...early 2003, Congress announced a plan that sounded as if it might rectify the distortions in federal outlays--a new $100 million grant for "high threat" urban areas only. In April, Secretary Ridge said seven cities had made the "high threat" list because of population density, the presence of important infrastructure and credible threats--which is to say, because of risk. The roster of cities--New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco and Houston--matched up perfectly with AIR's list of most at-risk cities. Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York, which received...
...culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin. Times Square became not just urban but urbane...
...speech in Detroit came the same day that the National Urban League released its State of Black America report, which includes a chapter by Ogletree...
...Brown anniversary approaches, “it’s important that organizations like the Urban League make sure that we temper our celebration of progress with a sensible and honest reflection in the areas where we’ve had failures,” Ogletree said...