T&W Fellowships

Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) announces the second T&W Fellowships, which will be awarded for 2008–2009 to two early-career writers. The T&W Fellowships are made possible by the generous support of the EDWARD AND SALLY VAN LIER FUND in The New York Community Trust.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative: T&W provides and advocates for literary arts education [...]

CD Release Party: On the Shoulders of Our Ancestors

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Who Killed MLK?

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Weusi

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New Street Poets

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Rent-regulated apartments threatened by investment firms

This is the same Management Company that is affecting Harlem Tenants ! Maybe if all Tenants from Queens, Harlem and Washington Heights came together as one, things could get done.
There’s a new breed of landlord buying up apartments around the city, and tenant advocates say “predatory equity” firms are bent on turning affordable housing into [...]

Narmer’s Nook

U.S. Army Set to Recruit Citizens [allAfrica.com]
More Refugees From Burma Expected in U.S. [The New York Sun]
Co-Payments for Expensive Drugs Soar [New York Times]

100 Show Up to Link Hands and “Save Harlem”

Follow up to the Hands Across Harlem item posted last week:
About 100 people turned up at a rally in Harlem on Saturday aimed at blocking the Bloomberg administration’s plan to rezone 125th Street to allow for denser residential and commercial development. But the rally quickly turned into an omnibus protest against everything from Columbia’s Harlem expansion [...]