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Review: Crooked hero in 'Crook Manifesto' learns that getting Jackson 5 tickets is not as easy as A-B-C

FICTION: The second novel in Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy is a masterwork of stylish noir and social satire.

Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2023

Exclusive: Colleagues mourn new Harlem supermarket worker beaten to death sweeping sidewalk by homeless man with wooden plank

A new employee sweeping the sidewalk outside a Harlem supermarket was beaten to death with a wooden plank by a homeless man, cops and distraught colleagues said Tuesday.

Tribune News Service · Jul 18, 2023

Book Review: Colson Whitehead pens entertaining, uneven sequel to 2021 bestseller 'Harlem Shuffle'

Colson Whitehead is back with a sequel to his 2021 bestseller “Harlem Shuffle.”

The Independent UK · Jul 17, 2023

Man falsely accused by Donald Trump in Central Park Five case runs for local government

Yusef Salaam was one of five defendants found guilty in the 1989 Central Park rape case that had the likes of Donald Trump calling for the death penalty. Years after being exonerated for the heinous crime, Salaam will likely become the next councilman for a New York City neighborhood

Daily Mirror · Jun 28, 2023

Central Park Five’s Yusef Salaam declares victory in city council primary

Salaam, who was falsely accused along with four others of raping a woman, faced two veteran politicians for Harlem seat in New York

The Guardian - US · Jun 28, 2023

Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam wins primary for NYC council

‘This campaign has been about those who have been counted out. This campaign has been about those who have been forgotten,’ 49-year-old says

The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2023

Paris becomes new 'voguing' capital as LGBT community finds refuge in ballroom scene

To mark Pride Month, we take a closer look at ballroom culture, an LGBT movement born in Harlem, New York in the 1920s and which flooded nightclubs in the 1970s. In Paris, now one of the world's "voguing" capitals, the ballroom scene boasts some thirty dance troupes known as houses.…

France 24 · Jun 23, 2023

Once wrongly imprisoned for notorious rape, member of 'Central Park Five' is running for office

Some consider Yusef Salaam a folk hero as a member of the “Central Park Five,” the group of teenagers wrongly convicted of raping a white jogger in a brutal attack 34 years ago

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023

AOC praised by Jordan Neely’s family as grand jury indicts Daniel Penny for subway death

New York Democrat advocated for victim and his family after his death and attended his funeral in Harlem on 19 May

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2023

Rev Al Sharpton delivers powerful eulogy at Jordan Neely’s funeral: ‘They put their arms around all of us’

‘Jordan was screaming for help. We keep criminalising people with mental illness,’ Rev Sharpton said

The Independent UK · May 19, 2023