HARLEM NEWS AND VIEWS

News   Hudson teaches kids education is key MLB.com By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com | 08/09/11 2:57 PM ET NEW YORK -- Orlando Hudson is as southern as they come, but he always makes it a point to venture to Harlem and address the local inner-city kids. He has done charity work here a few times already, ... See all stories on this topic » Bystander shot by NYPD in wild Harlem shootout last summer sues city for $7 ... New York Daily News BY Scott Shifrel The scene at a Harlem block party shootout last August where Antoine Brown, a bystander, was shot. Brown sued the city for $7 million Monday. A Bronx man who was shot and wounded by NYPD cops while at a Harlem block party last summer ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News Another bite at charter schools in Harlem Deseret News (blog) Harlem has become ground zero in the charter school fight, its charter schools praised in Waiting for Superman and denounced by the likes of Matt Damon. Their fate remains uncertain as the political battle over education reform rages on in New York ... See all stories on this topic » Chinatown Also Losing Chinese Edge To...Harlem? Gothamist Harlem. Harlem and East Harlem have seen their Chinese populations grow by an astounding 200 percent in the past ten years, reports the Daily News, who analyzed data from the Center for Urban Research. Why the influx? More space and cheaper rent, ... See all stories on this topic » Gothamist MICHAEL DAVIS: Spanish Harlem, Glenn Beck, Venom, and The New Spider-Man Comicmix.com By Michael Davis on August 9th, 2011 at 7:56 am When I came back to ComicMix it was decided that the focus would be on comics and related media. My former column was often politically charged and often had nothing to do with comics. ... See all stories on this topic » What Once Seemed Too Far Is Now Just Right New York Times By DIANE CARDWELL Many years ago, back when 96th Street was the bright-line border separating the upper reaches of the Upper East Side and East Harlem, Darin White, an executive at a major search firm, had a friend who lived in a nice prewar building ... See all stories on this topic » Blogs   Harlem is Nowhere « AFRICA IS A COUNTRY By Sean Jacobs Excerpt from Sharifa Rhodes Pitts' memoir of the black metropolis, "Harlem is Nowhere," which came out this week in the UK: The Langston Hughes Atrium [of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture] is available as a rental ... AFRICA IS A COUNTRY The Art of Harlem: Sanford Biggers By Cyndi In tribute to Harlem Week, we will feature a closer look at some of Harlem's local artists. We start off our series with a resident artist of our own Harlem restaurant, Red Rooster. Contemporary artist Sanford Biggers can be considered. Chef Marcus Samuelsson