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Subway rider stabbed during unprovoked attack in Harlem station, NYPD says

NEW YORK — A rider was stabbed in the back during an unprovoked attack at a Harlem subway station early Friday, police said.

Tribune News Service

Rev. Calvin Butts, influential pillar of Harlem, dies at 73

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The Independent UK

Who is Tito Puente? Google Doodle celebrates American ‘Nuyorican’ musician

The Puerto Rican artist, who grew up in Spanish Harlem, is being celebrated by Google for Hispanic Heritage Month in the US

Evening Standard

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Blues for an Alabama Sky review – Harlem renaissance drama is a tale for our times

A group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton

The Guardian - UK

British artists recreate ‘A Great Day in Harlem’ photo for Black History Month

Project marks 40th anniversary of British black arts movement and features emerging black talent

The Guardian - UK

‘Today’ show’s Al Roker getting his own ice cream flavor at local Harlem shop

Here’s the scoop about Al Roker. Harlem’s Sugar Hill Creamery plans to roll out a flavor dedicated to the popular “Today” show weatherman.

Tribune News Service

NYPD union may sue teen punched out by cop in caught-on-camera clash

NEW YORK — An NYPD union may sue the 19-year-old woman who tried to interfere with her boyfriend’s arrest for attempted-murder in Harlem — and was slugged by a city cop as a result.

Tribune News Service

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Review: 'Stories From the Tenants Downstairs,' by Sidik Fofana

FICTION: Eight linked stories about resourceful neighbors in a Harlem apartment building.

Tribune News Service

Would New York’s crack cocaine epidemic spread to London? The Observer investigates in 1987

Our reporters took to the streets of Harlem to assess the dangers of the lethal drug. By Michael Segalov

The Guardian - UK

Race, police and politics: 1964 and now

America's first year of urban "riots" (or "uprisings") changed our politics forever — and not in a good way

Salon

Live From Emmet’s Place: inside New York’s most exclusive jazz concert

Early in the pandemic, jazz pianist Emmet Cohen started a weekly gig in his apartment. It only has eight attendees but online fans all over the world

The Guardian - US

Suspected NYC serial stabber arrested in attacks on sleeping homeless victims

NEW YORK — The knife-wielding attacker suspected of stabbing three sleeping homeless men in Manhattan, killing one, was arrested Wednesday morning after a passer-by spotted him at a Harlem bus stop, a police source said.

Tribune News Service

Family defends man killed while apparently attacking Harlem bodega worker: ‘He’s not a monster’

‘Everyone is judging him on a clip of video’

The Independent UK

College basketball player killed in NYC shooting; 8 wounded

A college basketball player was killed and eight other people were wounded Monday in an early-morning shooting at a gathering in Harlem, New York City police said

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Tribune News Service

Nine people shot, 1 fatally at Harlem barbecue

NEW YORK — Nine people were shot in Harlem early Monday, one fatally, police said.

WEKU

'1619 Project' journalist lays bare why Black Americans 'live sicker and die quicker'

Linda Villarosa says bias in the health care system and the "weathering" affect of living in a racist society are taking a serious toll on African Americans. Her new book is Under the Skin.

Tribune News Service

3 murders kick off violent start to the weekend in NYC

NEW YORK — Two fatal shootings and the stabbing murder of a Harlem woman kicked off a bloody weekend across the city as cops begin to gain some ground on the war to reduce gun violence, NYPD officials said Saturday.

Reason

Afro-Cuban Discriminated Against for Being Hispanic, Not Black

Here's a curious case described in the Washington Post in 1980, one that didn't make it into my forthcoming book on racial classifications: Miguel Sandoval arrived in Harlem in 1959 from Havana, where he'd been an outspoken advocate of better civil rights for black Cubans. Sandoval was Cuban, but he…

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Chicago Sun-Times

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcome their first baby

The couple, who first revealed her pregnancy with a belly-baring Harlem photo shoot in January, became parents of a baby boy on May 13 in Los Angeles.

Chicago Sun-Times

DJ Kay Slay, hip-hop pioneer, dies of COVID-19 at 55

Grayson grew up in Harlem, immersed in New York City’s early hip hop scene. He got his start as a teenage graffiti artist and was featured in the 1983 hip hop documentary “Style Wars.”

The Independent UK

Attacker dons latex gloves before attempted rape of woman in Harlem

A 43-year-old woman was repeatedly kicked in the head and body

Daily Mirror

Pregnant Rihanna stuns as she shows off her baby bump in an all-leather outfit

Rihanna and boyfriend A$AP Rocky announced the pregnancy with a Harlem photoshoot back in January

Tribune News Service

NY man who allegedly dumped cousin’s body in plastic bin duped victim’s son by texting from dead mom’s phone, prosecutors say

NEW YORK — When Nisaa Walcott’s teenage son returned from school to their East Harlem apartment last week, his mom wasn’t home — but his mom’s cousin was there to greet him, cleaning the floor with bleach.

The Independent UK

‘Every kid now is carrying guns’: New Yorkers call on Biden to act as he visits city gripped by violence

Bevan Hurley speaks to residents of New York neighbourhoods blighted by gun crime, some of whom say they are afraid to leave their homes

The Independent UK

'3 times a hero': NYPD to honor 2nd officer slain in Harlem

Police are gathering at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to pay tribute to a young officer gunned down while answering a call for help in Harlem

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