Archive for August, 2007
San Francisco Hopes to Reverse Black Flight
SAN FRANCISCO — Wayne Cooksey joined the flight of African-Americans from this city last year to escape soaring rents and buy a home. Michael Higgenbotham left six years ago for a safer neighborhood and better schools for his three children. Adell Adams retired and wanted to downsize but knew her home’s equity wouldn’t go far [...]
Columbia Expansion 101: Wealthy University Devours West Harlem
A year ago, six auto repair shops packed the corner of Broadway and 131st Street, in West Harlem’s dingy industrial zone. The bulky, five-story building employed about 45 people, mostly black and Latino residents of the area, who spent their days servicing cars that rolled in from homes on the West Side. At the end [...]
Michael Vick: Born Again … ?
 Write this down: Michael Vick’s return to the NFL in 2010 will be the league’s biggest non-Super Bowl Sunday. And it just might even be in a Falcons’ uniform.
West Harlem Community Board 9 Seeks Latino Members
 According to the Columbia Spectator,  “the population of Community Board 9 (CB9), which stretches from 110th to 155th streets, is 43 percent Latino. Yet on the local community board that represents the area, only five of 50 members identify as Latino. To remedy that situation, some Latino CB9 members have formed a caucus to conduct [...]
Grant Opportunity — Urban Artist Initiative
The Asian American Arts Alliance, Association of Hispanic Arts, Harlem Arts Alliance, the Queens Council on the Arts, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian – in partnership with the Bronx Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts – announce the continuation of their consortium grants program, the [...]
Public Enemy — Back to Making Hits
20 years after the release of their astonishing debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Public Enemy returns with the provocative How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? .
Russell Simmons Steps Down as CEO of Phat Fashions
Russell Simmons has stepped down as CEO of Phat Fashions, the company he founded in 1992, that launched the popular Phat Farm brand of clothing.
East Harlem Residents Outraged by Sale of Major League Baseball Caps With Gang Colors
Official Major League Baseball caps blatantly featuring colors and symbols for some of America’s deadliest street gangs are turning up on store shelves in Harlem.
An Evening of Recommitment & Presence in NYC for Hurricanes Katrina & Rita Survivors
 In support of a Day of Presence supported by Essence , the Louisiana Justice Institute, and many other community organizations and the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita International Tribunal supported by the Coalition Mobilizing Nationwide for Massive Demonstration, both held in New Orleans on 8/29/07, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute will host a panel [...]
Street Ball in Harlem: Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic
(Rucker Park, 155th St. and Frederick Douglas Boulevard)
Survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita To Put US Government on Trial at International Tribunal
Brooklyn, New York — On the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s touchdown on the Gulf Coast region of the United States (August 29, 2007), hundreds of Katrina and Rita survivors, along with former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, New York City Council member Charles Barron, the Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the [...]
Take Action: The Jena 6
 Because social action is always more important than what’s poppin’ off in the celebrity world, I urge all of my readers to read about this current monumental upcoming civil rights case. There is a lot of misinformation circulating right now about the “Jena 6″ case. It’s great that people have finally taken notice of [...]
