#Harlem Heights

[wanderingnewyork]

Looking eastward along West 118th Street in #Harlem from #Morningside_Heights, #Manhattan.

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Bird graff

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free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

[richardswiftmdnyc]

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When we refer to buccal fat, the term buccal means that we are discussing the cheek area that surrounds the mouth. According to Dr. Swift, the top surgeon for buccal fat removal Brighton Beach has to offer, often times patients will want to bolster the area of the upper cheek, either using facial fillers like Juvederm or Restylane, or even sometimes by using a fat transfer procedure. This is often highly effective and can add the appearance of more prominent cheek bones for a patient, while giving the appearance of a slimmer more well contoured lower cheek — but it is only temporary and for many patients it isn’t ideal because it increases the overall size and ratios of the face. In recent years, many doctors have learned that by using Buccal fat removal New York patients will actually create an even more slimming effect and can do so permanently, although the cost of this would be the need for surgery.

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[contemplatingoutlander]

Trump continues having rallies in historic all-White "Sundown Towns," where Blacks had to leave by sunset.

Ayman Mohyeldin discusses the implications of Trump's having held rallies in Aug. and Sept. in four "Sundown Towns," where in the past Blacks had to leave/be off the streets by sundown. The rallies were held in Howell, MI, La Crosse, WI, and Johnstown, PA., and Mosinee, WI. Below is the video that Ayman posted on X.

AYMAN: "When your slogan is the nostalgic phrase Make America Great Again, a campaign tour of 'sundown towns' helps us all understand the America that Donald Trump is yearning for."

Trump keeps sending out his racist "dog whistles," while at the same time claiming that it is really "Whites" who are being discriminated against, and campaigning that he will ban the discussion in schools of "divisive" topics, like critical race theory, and instead promote a "patriotic" educational curriculum, like the whitewashed one developed by the 1776 Project in his last administration.

BlackPast: Sundown Towns:

Sundown Towns are all-white communities, neighborhoods, or counties that exclude Blacks and other minorities through the use of discriminatory laws, harassment, and threats or use of violence. The name derives from the posted and verbal warnings issued to Blacks that although they might be allowed to work or travel in a community during the daytime, they must leave by sundown. Although the term most often refers to the forced exclusion of Blacks, the history of sundown towns also includes prohibitions against Jews, Native Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and other minority groups. Although it is difficult to make an accurate count, historians estimate there were up to 10,000 sundown towns in the United States between 1890 and 1960, mostly in the Mid-West and West.

The Green-Book

The rise of sundown towns made it difficult and dangerous for Blacks to travel long distances by car. In 1930, for instance, 44 of the 89 counties along the famed Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles featured no motels or restaurants and prohibited Blacks from entering after dark. In response, Victor H. Green, a postal worker from Harlem, compiled the Negro Motorist Green Book, a guide to accommodations that served Black travelers. The guide was published from 1936 to 1966, and at its height of popularity was used by two million people.

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5 shot in NYC overnight, including possible innocent bystander: cops

5 shot in NYC overnight, including possible innocent bystander: cops

A woman struck by stray bullets was among at least five people injured in separate shootings overnight in the Big Apple, police said Wednesday. The 26-year-old victim was leaving a building on Nostrand Avenue near Bergen Street in Crown Heights around 3 a.m. when someone walked up and started shooting at a person standing near her, cops said.  The rounds instead struck her in the back and in both…

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1049

As part of the "This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture" exhibit in The Museum of the City of New York, a Sesame Street lamppost is on display.

The label reads as such:

[Lamppost from Sesame Street] Sesame Workshop, 2015

Painted metal and glass Courtesy of Sesame Workshop. © 2023 Sesame Workshop. All Rights Reserved.

An embodiment of the joy of city streets, Sesame Street first aired in 1969. By design, it is both somewhere and nowhere in New York City: the street has characteristics of every borough and many neighborhoods. This sign would be equally at home in Harlem, Park Slope, Morris Heights, Kew Gardens, or St. George.

Source:

Sesame Workshop. "Lamppost from Sesame Street." In "This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture." New York: The Museum of the City of New York. 2023.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Using a newly developed camera that swung in an arc from horizon to horizon, technicians of the Boston University Research Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force made this photo of Manhattan and the Bronx at a height of 10,000 feet on July 29, 1949.

The picture takes in a 260-mile sweep from the northern horizon, top, to southern horizon, bottom. An ordinary camera at this height would only have photographed about half of Central Park. The Hudson River is at left with the George Washington Bridge at top left. The Bronx lies beyond the Harlem River at upper right, with Long Island Sound at top right. The East River runs along the right. Staten Island is at lower left and Brooklyn is at lower right.

Source: Associated Press

[lboogie1906]

Audley “Queen Mother” Moore (July 27, 1898 - May 2, 1997) prominent Harlem civil rights activist, was born in New Iberia, Louisiana to Ella and St. Cry Moore. She educated herself by reading the writings of Frederick Douglass and listening to the speeches of Marcus Garvey.

Moved by the Black Nationalist message in a speech Marcus Garvey gave in New Orleans, she migrated to Harlem in 1922. She became a member and then a leader within Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association. A proud shareholder in the Black Star Line, she helped organize UNIA conventions in New York. She married Frank Warner in 1922. They had one son.

After the demise of the UNIA, she founded several organizations. She founded and served as president of the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women. She founded the Committee for Reparations for Descendants of US Slaves, and The Republic of New Africa, which demanded self-determination, land, and reparations for African Americans. During the height of the Cold War, she presented a petition to the UN in 1957 which demanded land and billions in reparations for people of African descent and it requested direct support for African Americans who sought to immigrate to Africa.

She focused on local issues. She participated in a sit-in at a Board of Education meeting in Brooklyn. She and the other protesters said board members failed to adequately fund schools in African American communities. She served as the bishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church of Judea and she co-founded the Commission to Eliminate Racism, Council of Churches of Greater New York.

While attending the funeral of former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, the Ashanti ethnic group bestowed upon her the honorary title “Queen Mother.” The Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC. honored Moore and 40 other famous Black women in Brian Lanker’s photo exhibit, “I Dream a World.”

Her activism continued through the mid-1990s, and she made her final public appearance at the Million Man March in 1995. She was survived by her son, five grandchildren, and a great-grandson. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Paul Sorvino

Physique: Husky Build Height: 6’ 3" (1.91 m)

Paul Anthony Sorvino (April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor who often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law. Sorvino was particularly known for his roles as Lucchese crime family caporegime Paulie Cicero in Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster film Goodfellas and as NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the second and third seasons of the TV series Law & Order. Sorvino died on July 25, 2022, aged 83.

Tall, dark and handsome with an adorable smile, a lovely shape and was deceptively hairy. All that is nice, but what is important is Old Paulie packing a serious pair of nuts that I would love to have dragged all over my face. Also I have to mention that ass of his that I want my dick to take a swan dive into. I'm willing to bet Paul had to have some idea that us chasers love it.

The Brooklyn native was married three times with three children from his first, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. The tough-guy actor was also an accomplished sculptor, a painter, a best-selling author, many, many things, even a poet, an opera singer.

RECOMMENDATIONS: That's Life (2000 TV Series) - Shirtless Harlem Aria (1999) - Open shirt Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way (1997) - Open shirt Romeo + Juliet (1996) - Shirtless Parallel Lives (1994) - Rear nudity Very Close Quarters (1984) - Shirtless I Will… I Will… For Now (1976) - Shirtless It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974) - Shirtless A Touch of Class (1973) - Shirtless

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The Face of Nathan Hale.

Nathan Hale, a distinguished American Patriot, soldier, and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is immortalized in the face captured through a Photohop reconstruction of Frederick William MacMonnies' statue of Hale in City Hall Park, New York.

Born on June 6, 1755, Nathan Hale excelled academically and graduated with honors from Yale University in 1773. Soon after, in 1775, he joined a Connecticut militia unit and rapidly rose to the rank of first lieutenant within five months. He became a valued member of Knowlton's Rangers, a reconnaissance and espionage detachment established by General George Washington.

At the young age of just over twenty-one, Hale's courage and determination led him to volunteer for a perilous mission behind enemy lines before the Battle of Harlem Heights. Though lacking formal training in espionage, he succeeded in gathering vital information about British troop movements for a week.

Sadly, on September 21, 1776, during his return from a mission, Hale was captured and found in possession of an incriminating document written in Latin hidden in the sole of his shoe. Without a fair trial, General William Howe ordered his execution for spying, which was carried out the next morning, September 22, 1776. Hale spent his final night confined in the greenhouse of Howe's headquarters, and at dawn, he was led to the gallows, where he faced his death with remarkable courage, famously uttering, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Nathan Hale's legacy lives on as America's first spy and a symbol of unwavering patriotism. In recognition of his selfless sacrifice and devotion, he was officially declared Connecticut's state hero on October 1, 1985.

Contemporary accounts paint a picture of a remarkable individual. Beyond his intelligence and athletic prowess in wrestling, football, and broad jumping, Hale was described as kind, gentle, religious, and exceptionally good-looking. With fair skin, light blue eyes, and hair, he stood just under six feet tall, captivating both men and women alike. His presence and character earned him the admiration and affection of all who knew him, and it was said that all the girls in New Haven were enamored by him.

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