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Troy
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Posted on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 - 07:03 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I stumbled across this web site waiting for my daughter to come stairs so that I can take them out for breakfast on their first day of school.

http://www.harlemfur.com/

All of the new construction is walking distance from my house.

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Doberman23
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Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 04:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

at least you will always have the shuffle and the globe trotters.
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Cynique
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Posted on Thursday, September 06, 2007 - 11:06 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

And the Renassiance.
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Troy
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Posted on Friday, September 07, 2007 - 08:59 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

The Globetrotters are not from Harlem (Chitown I believe), I don't even know where the Harlem Shuffle comes from, but I'm sure it is not from Harlem.

As far as the Renaissance, and I know this will make me sound a lot like Chris H., but that was merely a 10 year aberration, that no one really cares about other than AA Lit students and Harlem fanatics. Besides that ended almost a century ago.

Harlem was always in a state of flux, and while many of the changes are for the better -- they are just happening so rapidly it is almost staggering.



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Cynique
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Posted on Friday, September 07, 2007 - 12:28 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yep, Troy, I do believe that Abe Saperstein, who originated and managed the Harlem Globe Trotters, began his project in Chicago.
But don't dismiss the Harlem Renassiance so lightly, young man. This period was a water shed for blacks because it exposed to the white literati what blacks were already were aware of; that they were just as creative and talented as whites. Yes, it was over by the end of the 1920s decade but the fact that its heyday was 80 years ago does not diminish its place in American literature.
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Chrishayden
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Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2007 - 11:23 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Pretty soon the only Negroes in Harlem will be statues and on street signs

It's like that in lots of places in St. Louis that had German names and stuff. All the Germans are gone now and its mostly blacks, Mexicans and Asians.

Ahhh Progress

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