The Scoop: Happy Birthday, Harlem!
Photo Credit : Illustration by Doreen Lam for the Columbia Spectator
Harlem is turning 350! The vice president of the Harlem Preservation Foundation gives an enlightening history about the not-so-well-known Dutch connection of the neighborhood. (ColSpectator)
Maya Angelou is ‘excited’ about turning 80. The momentous event is being celebrated with a new illustrated book this week. (USA Today)
A 14 year old student showed up to the Family Academy in Harlem with a loaded gun. (NY1)
Nick Sprayregen, owner of Tuck-it-Away Storage, is bringing a lawsuit to the city and Columbia University in order to challenge the expansion project. (CrainsNY)
A new strain of TB in Harlem and the Bronx is causing concern among doctors and the health department. (WNYC News)
A townhall meeting that took place in Harlem over the weekend discussed the loss of Mitchell-Lama apartments to the Manhattanville expansion project. Many present stated they were ‘cautiously optimistic’ that a Harlemite is now governor. (GothamGazette)
Apparently there are rats in Harlem! Playwright Israel Horowitz brings us two pieces in “From Harlem to the Bronx.”(BroadwayWorld)
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MARKETER CLAIMS TO CARE ABOUT HARLEM BUT PLANS TO OVER GENTRIFY AS LONG AS SHE CAN MAKE MONEY ON IT!
Carole Griffin Prez of Griffin Realty Group claims she is from Harlem but actually lives in a wealthy suburb. She attends church our community only to gain the trust of those she is expoloiting for her own greed and to make connections to forward her agenda of making money from gentrifying Harlem beyond recognition. In privacy she mocks the good people of Harlem! Its a sin.
What’s with the Black clenched fist symbolism?
Preservation of Black rage, is that the idea?
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Maya, all we have is life to give….Thanks.