...“natural” or “organic” and some products have no label/listing of the hazardous ingredients at all. The project consisted of a three-prong approach: 1.compile a list of nail salons, beauty supply stores, and hair braiding services, which are referred to as Points of Source (PsOS), in Northern Manhattan, 2. Research ten popular products in five ethnic personal care products categories and see if beauty supply stores carry them, 3. Survey the community in regards to ethnic hair care products. There are a total of 348 PsOS; 64.4% are located in Washington Heights/Inwood and Central Harlem, 65.2% are hair salons. The five ethnic personal care products categories that were chosen are: hair relaxers, hair-coloring products, gluing agents, skin lightening creams, and hair moisturizers/styling products. The products in each categories can be found in large quantities in Northern Manhattan mostly in Central Harlem. SUMMARIZE THE WHOLE ABSTRACT Methods In order to determine the PsOS and availability of ethnic personal care products, a map consisting of hair salons, beauty supply shops and braiding stores from all Northern Manhattan was compiled. These locations were plotted on a map and organized on a spreadsheet. The locations were gathered...
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...the Harlem Community. Domino’s Pizza Parlors have four to five stores in Harlem between the East and West side. Harlem is now a melting park of different cultures, races, religions and socio-economic backgrounds. In the past when people thought about West Harlem, they would think in terms of African Americans now Harlem has people from the Caribbean, Africa, and Caucasian people from America and Europe. East Harlem use to be thought of as Puerto Rican with the nickname El Barrio now there are people from Mexico, Honduras, Panama, San Salvador, and other Latin American countries. Caucasians and African Americans also live in East Harlem. The socio-economic status of people vary, People that are low income tend to live in New York City Housing Projects. People in the projects pay rent as low as $75.00 to as high as $700.00 a month. These people pay very little rent and many of the people are on public assistance. Domino’s chains make a great deal of their money from lower income families. A medium 12’ pizza is $11.00, large 16’ pizza is $15.00 both pizzas are with original and thin crust. Deep-dish pizzas are $12.00 for medium and $16.50 for large 15’ pizza. Buffalo’s wings $6.00 for 10 pieces, $3.50 for cinnamon and sugar sticks, twisty bread $3.50 and cheesy bread $3.50 and $75 for a can beverage. Domino’s pizza prices make it difficult for a person lower on the socio-economic scale to eat pizza weekly but many of them do. Many people in Harlem live...
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...build a range of housing types, create walkable neighborhoods, mix land uses, preserve open space, provide a variety of transportation options, and direct support toward existing communities rather than continuing city sprawl.” (Getis pg-380). The city project I choose to discuss in this paper is, “Abyssinian Neighborhood Project Harlem Community Revitalization” in Manhattan, New York. (http://www.smartgrowth.org/action/). What they did in Harlem and other areas was a great thing, by building additional homes that were affordable for people who could not afford much and to develop an environment that was convenient and save. This was a step up and a good start for the people in Harlem. This addition helped renew the neighborhoods and helped improve the environment by cleaning the area from the streets to the buildings that were left behind to nothing. They also developed green places for people to live, work, and shops and also developed different transportation solutions from buses to walking areas. This projected helped to create a great community based living for people to feel like they are a part of something and feel save. As one of the Harlem resident, Kisha Spence stated, “To be able to live, work and shop in my neighborhood, gives me and other...
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...Civil Rights Moments Diary Antonette Brown HIS/145 March 21st,2012 Amy Champ February 21, 1965 Dear Diary, This afternoon I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear the great Malcolm X speak. When I got to the ballroom things was different there was protesters or police. Any other time Malcolm X meeting in the heart of Harlem had police everywhere. As usual I was with my boyfriend who followed every step of Malcolm, he believed that things needed to change and Malcolm stood for that and he’s what this country needed. Hand and hand we walk into the meeting room, and again I didn’t see any more police. We went to take our seats next a woman and her son who I think was no older than 7. As I sat down I glanced over to where I normally sat and saw a big black man with a navy blue trench coat. I took my focus off the man when the crowd became quiet and listened to Benjamin X introduce Malcolm X. When Malcolm walked up to the microphone he gave the normal Muslim greeting for peace. Right at that moment two black Muslims who I’ve seen before were standing about halfway back in the room to the right of the stage where Malcolm was standing. Get your hands out of your pocket! One of the me yelled. Malcolm and others was trying to get everyone to calm down specially the women and children who start crying. The little boy who was sitting next to me with his mother had his head buried in his mother’s dress. Sunny (boyfriend)...
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...New York is a diverse metropolis, which has a notorious history. It can be imagined as an army of soldiers with war scars. One of those solider is the Neighborhood “Harlem”, one of its biggest scars is the Harlem Riot of 1935, which was the result of the poor economic standards in Harlem and the Police Brutality. Harlem is famous for its cultural movement, which is known as the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement. There’s a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. which is mentioned in his acceptance speech for his Noble Peace Prize, “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” The Harlem Riots of 1935 was simply another attack to help end the battle of racism. According to Wang, Tabitha C in her online article, Harlem Race Riot (1935) the riot occurred on March 19, 1935, when a 16-year-old black Puerto Rican teenager stole a 10-cent knife from a store called Kress Five and Ten on 125th Street. Soon after Police officials detained Rivera, no charges were made against him. In the heat of the moment, crowds began to emerge in front of the store and much rumor spread through the street of Harlem that Rivera was beaten to death when an ambulance left the scene empty. Afterwards groups organized by the Young Communist League and a black group called the Young...
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...(Romare Bearden His Life and Art) cover page. “He was born on September 2, 1911 the only child of Bessye and Howard Bearden in his grandmother home at 401 South Graham Street, Charlotte, North Carolina”. Due to the prejudice of the South and Jim Crow laws plus the lack of professional opportunities, for young blacks his father moved the family to New York City when he was three years old. Romare family had it very tuff times moving back and front out of New York, but they ended up in a stable apartment in Harlem in 1920. It was hard times for black people then and finding work was very difficult for his parents (Romare Bearden His Life and Art) page 15, 17, 20. Bessye his mother who had a college education got a job working for New York City school board and was the first black women to have that position. And she also was a correspondent at the Chicago Defender, a social club of the community. So she expected her son to do very well in school. But Harlem school were changing everyday with more black moving up from the south, so Romare was sent to live with his grandmother (page 29). In 1925, Bearden went to Pittsburgh where he lived with his grandmother and graduated from Peabody High School in 1929. His grandmother operated a boarding house that catered largely to steel mill workers. Romare traveled to the South Carolina and to Pittsburgh for his summers (Romare Bearden The Caribbean Dimension page...
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...Spanning from the 1920s to the mid 1930s the Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. The Harlem Renaissance influenced future generations of black writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals. Many renowned black writers, artists, and musicians had help give birth to this new movement taking place. One in particular being Augusta Savage. She was an African American artist and arts educator. She was born Augusta Christine Fells on February 29, 1892,in Green Cove Springs, Florida. As a child began to make art by using the natural clay found in her community. She would sculpt animals and other small objects she could find. Though she loved to sculpt her father greatly disapproved. He tried hi best to stop her from sculpting and focus on something more productive. But despite her father's objections, she continued to make sculptures. In 1915 after her family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida Savage found it difficult to make sculptures due to the lack of clay. She then started to use other materials from the local potter in order to make sculptures. She then created a group of figures that she entered in a local county fair. Her work was well-received, winning a prize and the support of the fair's organizer, George Graham Currie. He encouraged her to study art. Savage moved to New York City during the early 1920s to better establish herself as a sculptor. She studied art at Cooper Union College and after...
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...Claude McKay, an important writer of the the Harlem Renaissance, wrote “America” in 1921. The poem describes the speaker’s love-hate relationship with America. McKay considers the country to be “a cultured hell,” and yet he admits that he also can’t help loving and admiring the country. These two intense emotions come from two of the completely contradictory aspects of American culture that are most well known: oppression and freedom. One Harlem Renaissance theme in this poem is “determination to fight oppression.” Lines like “as a rebel fronts a king in state, / I stand within her walls with not a shred / Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer” show that although American culture is deeply rooted in racism, it wont always be that way. Equality is something worth fighting for, and African Americans are not just going to stand the hatred from racist whites. This poem reflects the hope and excitement of the Harlem Renaissance mixed with the equally important pain and struggle that was also going on. McKay uses personification to compare America to a female, perhaps a mother or even a romantic interest; someone who he theoretically despises, but can’t help depend on. Although she has wronged him and hurt him deeply, “Her vigor flows like tides into [his] blood.” She gives him the strength he needs to fight against her oppression. American culture is founded on racism and oppression, but also values freedom and equality, allowing the oppressed to fight back and win against...
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...During the Harlem Renaissance The Cotton Club was one of the most famous nightclubs in history. The cotton club was located in New York City in Harlem. The club operated from the 1920's to the 1930's. The Cotton Club was mostly about jazz. Jazz is the art of individuals working in unison to make one sublime sound. This establishment was for whites only, all though it featured some of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians this era had to offer. In 1920, heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opened the Cotton Club under the name “Club Deluxe” on the corner of 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in the heart of the Harlem district. Owney Madden, a prominent bootlegger and gangster, took over the club in 1923 while imprisoned in Sing Sing and changed its name to the Cotton Club. A deal was arranged between the two that allowed Johnson to still be the club’s manager. Madden used the cotton club as an outlet to sell his number one beer to the prohibition crowd. The Cotton Club was a “Whites-only” foundation. Even in the heart of Harlem, the race line divided the black performers from the white patrons. Inside the Cotton Club, African themes were exploited and only "jungle music" was played to an all white audience. Duke Ellington put together one of the most talented jazz bands ever to walk on stage to play for the patrons of The Cotton Club six nights a week. As the twenties went on, Ellington would continue his huge success at The Cotton Club into many classic recordings...
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...of Renaissance is the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning. The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American cultural movement that focused on literature, music, theater, art, and politics. The Harlem Renaissance is important because it’s something that brought African Americans together as a whole. It allowed them to get the opportunities that people tried to strip them of. This was being human and normal. After the war the African American people began to migrate to Harlem and that’s when it all started. Harlem was the place the largest group of African Americans moved to during the African American Great Migration. Most African Americans came for work and a hope for a new life. Places such as The Apollo Theater and The Cotton Club, and Musicians, Writers and Actors were a part of the Harlem Renaissance. That’s what made the Harlem Renaissance. It was time for a cultural celebration.” African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. The end of bondage had not brought the Promised Land many had envisioned.” “The Harlem Renaissance” ushistory, Independence Hall Association, 22 May 2014, http://www.ushistory.org/us/46e.asp , 2008-2014 A music theater that has history, which means it wasn’t an ordinary place. An extraordinary place called the Apollo Theater. The Apollo Theater is located in Harlem, New York on 125th Avenue between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglas Boulevard. The Apollo...
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...Strategic Analysis and Recommendations 1 Memo Date: March 26, 2015 To: Harlem Children’s Zone Executive Committee From: MITA Consulting Group Re. Strategic Analysis and Recommendations: Per your request, MITA Consulting Group has prepared the following analysis of The Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) strategies. HCZ’s main strategic focuses’ have included penetrating the zone, tracking performance, building the organizational team, expanding boundaries, and informing the field through governance and open communication to other organizations and policy-makers. The imperatives have enabled HCZ to continue to focus and build upon its set vision of actively helping children while building a scalable and replicable model. Although we agree with this holistic approach, our analysis indicates that three major strategic issues exist that are hindering long term growth capitalization. The issues are: 1. HCZ is struggling to create a culture of effective measurement and analysis. They are plagued with information silos and technology gaps that make it difficult for program directors to create any significant actionable insights through the data. 2. HCZ’s ten year vision is to reach $46 million in revenues, serve 24,000 people, and expand to an area three times the size of its current zone. However, a growth strategy solely focused on zone expansion will not allow them to reach this vision. Tigist’s suggestion to reword: 2 HCZ’s growth strategy solely focused on zone expansion...
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...Harlem Renassainse poets The Harlem Renaissance Poets: Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen Strayer University HUM112 May 29, 2013 Langston Hughes often referred to as the leader of the leader of the Harlem Renaissance or the father of Harlem Renaissance poetry. Pulling from major iconic influences such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Walk Whitman, and Carl Sandburg; who Langston Hughes referred to as, his “guiding star”, and was ultimately responsible Hughes’ use of free verse. With the completion of his first two books, The Weary Blues (1926) and Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), Langston Hughes earned his place as a major driving force of the Harlem Renaissance (Rampersad, 2013). One of the major contributions to the Harlem Renaissance was the article called,”The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” in the June 23, 1926 edition of The Nation. In the article is describes as a manifesto in which Langston Hughes “skillfully argues the need for both race pride and artistic independence.” (Rampersad, 2013) Countee Cullen is somewhat viewed as a mystery. Facts about his location of birth, and early childhood life cannot be exactly pinpointed. Originally it was claimed by Cullen on a New York transcript that he was born in Louisville, Kentucky but later claimed New York City as his official place of birth. The way that Countee Cullen contributed to the Harlem Renaissance was through the many talents he displayed as a poet, children’s writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and...
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...It wasn’t until 1920 that a group of literary writers began their own cry for emancipation and through their compassion for their fellow African Americans, began putting those feelings and thoughts on paper in the form of writings and poetry. This cry of lamentation, expressed through heart rending writings and heart felt poetry, was known as the Harlem Renaissance, and otherwise referred to as the “New Negro Movement.” There were many changes that were to be seen during this rebirth that lasted twenty four years. The writings were not only the lament of men and women voicing their rage and empathy for their fellow African Americans plight of slavery, but were writings that would sooth the wounds of former slavery and take the former slaves trough the far reaching effects of a stock market crash and the further woes of the ensuing Great Depression. The renaissance period brought forth the movement that changed the entire social, physiological, and personal views of Negro Americans of themselves as it related to their past and catapulted them into creating a social standing never before seen until that time. What began in Harlem would forever change the face of the Negro American in the eyes of all other races. The new writings and poetry that resulted from this period, encouraged the African American to...
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...Florence Mills skyrocketed to fame in the second act. Trixie Smith sang "He May Be Your Man But He Comes to See Me Sometimes." And Caterina Jarboro, now a European prima donna, and the internationally celebrated Josephine Baker were merely in the chorus. Everybody was in the audience--including me. People came back to see it innumerable times. It was always packed. . . . When I saw it, I was thrilled and delighted. . . . It gave just the proper push--a pre-Charleston kick--to that Negro vogue of the 20's, that spread to books, African sculpture, music, and dancing. From The Big Sea by Langston Hughes (New York: Hill and Wang, 1940) [pic] [pic] Cotton Club Program (1920s). Langston Hughes on Whites in Harlem White people began to come to Harlem in droves. For several years they packed the expensive Cotton Club on Lenox...
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