36 Burst results for "Harlem"
Mike Gallagher Podcast
The Real History of Repeat Criminal Jordan Neely
"Have you seen the videos posted on social media? Of the guy. Who died? He used to be a Michael Jackson impersonator and they give you the impression all he was doing was standing on the subway, doing a Michael Jackson routine. You need to know what this guy was about. In 2019, a guy named Castillo balthazar balthazar was assaulted by Jordan Neely, the 68 year old 68 year old New Yorker was interviewed by the New York Daily News. He said he should have been in some rehab center. On June 27th, 2019, Valtteri was on a platform at the west fourth street subway station in Greenwich Village. When Jordan Neely, the shank, the martyr, walked up to him and punched balthazar in the face. Balthazar, who's a Mexican immigrant who lives in Harlem, said I was waiting for the train looking at the monitor to see how long it would take to come out of nowhere, he punched me in the face. You know what else this shape has done? On November 12th, 2021, Jordan Neely was arrested for slugging a 67 year old female stranger in the face. And she exited a subway station in the East Village. This guy did this over and over and over and over again. He would go up to people and punch him in the mouth. 67 year old woman. That's what kind of a monster this guy was.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Fresh "Harlem" from CoinDesk Podcast Network
"It's Wednesday, June 7th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. I'm Adam B. Levine here going with a featured story. On today's show, we hear from a builder who sees the writing on the wall. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a new source and does not provide investment advice. Today's featured story is an opinion piece by Derek Boyran, who is the founder of the blockchain company Relio. Our piece today is entitled, Why I'm Leaving the U .S. This summer, 2023, I'm leaving the United States indefinitely. Born and raised as a U .S. citizen, as a now 42 -year -old, it seems surreal that this is doing for the sole purpose of protecting my constitutional rights, company, and family from government overreach. This is my story. I'm the founder of the blockchain company Relio, which, as the name may suggest, is focused on building out digital infrastructure geared towards bringing real -world assets such as real estate on -chain. We started building this company in 2018 full -time, and have spent a lot of time and money towards its development. From the start, our core focus has been on compliance with regulation, given that investing in real -world assets, whether on blockchain or not, is generally subject to securities laws. After all, investing in real estate isn't new, and neither are securities laws, so doing this on -chain sounded very doable. Fast forward to 2022, having survived through the COVID economy crash, mainly because the crypto economy was growing so fast, we are growing and feeling optimistic on the business having issued, compliantly, multiple digital security tokens on top of our tech platform. We generally stayed away from and ignored most of the stuff happening in crypto, which also happened to be where all the money was going, because of a belief that compliance is achievable and where things are headed. A lot of people got very rich chasing the fast money, whether anonymously or otherwise, but we stayed the course. We even opted to tokenize our own company via compliant digital security token issuance, despite the limited market for compliant tokens and extremely robust market for initial coin offerings of tokens that trade more freely globally. Fortunately, we managed to raise enough to keep building for a few years, and as a crypto native company, ride the bull market to its full extent. We're very grateful for the support provided by companies like Algorand, who invested in us via their token Algo, which just this morning I had to listen to Jim Kramer and Gary Gensler trash as a Ponzi scheme and illegal security. If it weren't for Algorand's generous investment, along with the enormous growth of the Algo economy, we may have been in a much different story with funding. The greater part of 2020 through the year 2023 was spent on compliance. We managed to raise significant capital for our flagship funds that we tokenized on our platform, compliantly, and we spent years burning cash on top legal representation towards registration of the fund with the SEC under the 1940 act. The amount of money we spent on this is greater than the entire operating budget of many small startups. Towards the end of last year, after multiple calls with SEC staff to explain the structure, we were ready to file. Then, FTX happened. Soon after, via an email exchange with our attorneys, I was informed that the SEC staff is shutting down all registrations of tokenized funds who seek to trade on a licensed ATS or alternative trading system, which was pretty much our only path to registration or compliance. Upset, I wrote down the loss of effort towards this and moved on to restructure the vehicle to be exempt from the 40 act, which, oddly enough, will create a much better digital product anyway. In parallel, and also through a very expensive process, we were filing for Regulation CF, that's crowdfunding portal license with FINRA, that's another regulator. Again, we had multiple calls with staff, addressed all issues, and filed. At about the same time, the end of 2022 after FTX, FINRA requested a call with us to review our application details. In good faith, we prepared for the call and answered all questions. We couldn't help but feel, however, that the call was kind of a setup in order to try or catch us on some kind of technicality, all because we use blockchain as an issuance technology. The staff seemed to play ignorant to how it all works, repeating basic questions over and over, as if they were trying to lead us into an answer they wanted. The only real guidance we received on the call was at the very beginning, where, in an awkward moment, the staff made us raise all of our hands and represent that we were not recording the call. After receiving the list of follow -up questions from them after that call, though, it was fairly obvious that they did in fact record it for their own purposes. The list of follow -up questions was extensive and beyond appropriate for this type of application. Being clear that FINRA was going to drag this out possibly for years, we decided to put the application on hold until a new administration comes into office. There is literally no path to registration for a majority of blockchain -based asset issuers, and it's not for lack of trying or lack of compliance. I can testify from experience that the regulators are not acting fairly or in good faith towards this industry. Thankfully, we have enough freedom in the US where I can say this without fear of retaliation. I'm not new to the kind of tactics that are being employed by regulators towards us. It's standard bureaucratic BS that's par for the course in government and similar institutions. I'm also not just some crypto -bro or shadowy super -coder as many like to classify us as. After graduating from Columbia University with two master's degrees, I took a job with the university to help develop their new $6 billion campus in West Harlem. My daily life was filled with this kind of crap. But what regulators are doing to the blockchain industry is different in the way they're manipulating the free market from developing. It's not just day -to -day internal politics as usual. It is in fact a guilty -until -proven innocent approach to regulating that has governed the financial system for decades. There is an entire industry of extremely talented individuals joining the effort to build out what we believe through empirical evidence is a better financial system for the world. This isn't a game to us, and it isn't politics. We don't view the world through borders or arbitrary regulatory barriers that were built a century ago. Many of us left careers in traditional fields to do this, and now we're leaving the US too. And so, to whom it may concern, money is the last battle in the fight for freedom. We will not watch silently as you continue to control and manipulate us through it. You do not have this right despite the office you hold. You do not have the right to tell us what the market needs and what it doesn't. This is specifically the kind of overreach that we fought for independence from to start this nation. The capital markets are being suffocated with regulation that do not actually protect anyone other than those with the most money. Leaving the US is not easy either. I have a family, they love New York City, and schools are great for kids along with other reasons. But I have an obligation to protect all that we've built, which means seeking a jurisdiction that supports us continuing to build. And we will continue. These are the people you're pushing out. These are your shadowy super coders. Wake up. You can find the link to the author's medium page in the show notes for this episode. And thanks for listening. And that's our show for today. Thank you very much for listening. Today's episode was edited by Ryan, and for those of you still with us, we'd love to hear what you think. You can send us an email at podcast at coindesk .com. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice.
AP News Radio
Harry Belafonte mourned by entertainment world, Biden, Obama
"Harry Belafonte who died Tuesday at age 96 is remembered in Harlem. At Al sharpton's House of justice, the actor and activist was remembered as someone who made a major difference in the world on many fronts. He changed the political landscape of this country. And the cultural landscape of this country, all at the same time. Filmmaker Spike Lee remembers how he finally got to work with belafonte. He says, spike, do you have to have Ozzie Davis in all your films? Can I get one? And that still was BlacKkKlansman. And that was mister B's last role. Audio courtesy national action network, Julie Walker, New York
Mark Levin
The Blaze: Nearly One-Third of New Yorkers Want to Leave Their State
"I read the blaze they are reporting nearly one third of New Yorkers want to leave their state Over 10,000 have already sought refuge in Florida just this year So people are talking with their feet They're voting with their feet in their own individual instances You're a continues to hemorrhage residents many of whom are relocating to Florida It's true a new poll indicates that this trend wasn't limited to the pandemic It's likely to continue The Siena college poll conducted march 6th to the 9th has provided some damning insights into New Yorker's view of their own state When asked whether they felt that New York was a place they felt safe from crime 49% said no Women appeared especially concerned 57% said no Nearly 40% of respondents suggested New York is not a good place to rate children 60% of respondents cast out on whether New York is a suitable place To retire 31% said they would retire someplace else That's a third of the state When asked whether they plan to continue to live in New York or intend to leave within the next 5 years 27% of respondents said they were planning on leaving Not levy poll director at the Siena college research institute Told the New York Post these are high numbers These are take your breath away numbers Angela Gutierrez 38 told the post that she had moved to east Harlem from The Bronx partly to get away from all the crazy people but stressed that it still wasn't safe
AP News Radio
Who is Alvin Bragg: Manhattan DA investigating Trump
"Who is Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney investigating Donald Trump. The Harvard Law grad is a Democrat before Alvin Bragg won a tough primary to become Manhattan's first black DA. He was a civil rights lawyer who once represented the family of police chokehold victim Eric Garner. He was also a former federal prosecutor who oversaw a lawsuit that shut down Donald Trump's charitable foundation. Growing up in Harlem during the 1980s crack epidemic Bragg was held at gunpoint 6 times three by police. He's been criticized for wanting to eliminate cash bail and for going easy on criminals. He's also been criticized by Trump and his supporters over the investigation into hush money payments paid to women on his behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign. Julie Walker, New York
AP News Radio
NYPD officers, bystander save man who fell on subway tracks
"A dramatic rescue on the subway tracks in New York City's east Harlem on Thanksgiving. Two NYPD officers and a good Samaritan raced to save a man who fell on the tracks plucking him out of the way of an oncoming train and it was all caught on an officer's body cam. You hear the commotion in the oncoming train police say the man fell by accident Thanksgiving afternoon he's going to be okay. The officers were on the opposite platform when they saw him. They ran up outside across the street and back down to the other platform to get him. The good Samaritan was already on the tracks. They got the man up, but when one officer tried to climb up his gun belt caught on something and he had to be lifted out just
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"End with writing zone one. They went from monthly to once a year. And there's still a once a year. I mean, I have this thing where if I write about something, I definitely kind of exercise it. And so which is good in some ways, like zombie dreams. I wrote a piece about fried chicken last year and cooking fried chicken. It was very detailed. And then since then, I haven't been able to eat fried chicken. So the writing cure sometimes good and sometimes bad. Can I say about this weird thing, Jerry? Yeah. So obviously, the fresh air interview is revered around the world. And so whatever I say to you, now becomes the template for other people's interviews for years and years. So what do we ask me we'll come up with the question, but also any tangent. And so if I'm like, oh, and then in the summer I used to ride my bike and it was great. You know, three years from now in Finland, some journalists will be like Coulson. Tell me about the bike you had. Really? To transcript and then they'll steal your questions. And then also, they'll also steal stuff that just comes up in conversation. So I'm like, what bike, what are you talking about? And then they'll go come clean. It's the first draft of history. Colson Whitehead, it's been really great to have you back on the show, and I want to say again, I really love your new book. So thank you. Thanks for having me. It was great. Colson Whitehead speaking with Terry gross recorded last year. Whitehead's latest novel, Harlem shuffle is now out in paperback. After a short break film critic Justin Chang reviews the new fantasy film 3000 years of longing, starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. This is fresh air. In the new fantasy film 3000 years of longing, Tilda Swinton plays a literary scholar who has an encounter with a wish granting Genie or Jen, played by Idris Elba. It's the first movie directed by George Miller since Mad Max: Fury Road, and it opens this week in theaters. Our critic Justin Chang has this review. I've always felt there's something a bit too self conscious about movies that are explicitly about the magic of storytelling. Really, the best way to pay tribute to storytelling is to simply tell a good story. Not to rattle on and on about how timeless stories are. That may explain why I felt both mildly charmed and a little worn out by the new movie, three thousand years of longing. It's adapted from a short story by the English writer AS by it. And much of it unfolds in an Istanbul hotel room, where Idris Elba, taking a page from scheherazade, and her 1001 nights. Regales Tilda Swinton, with one fantastical tale after another. Some of these tales are vivid and involving. But what they add up to is less than the sum of its many shimmering parts. Even still, the movie has its undeniable pleasures. The Australian director George Miller might be best known for his thrilling Mad Max series. But he's always had a flair for fantasy. As he's shown in marvelously inventive films, like babe pig in the city and happy feet. In 3000 years of longing, which he co wrote with his daughter, Augusta gore. Miller unveils an outlandish premise with a sly wit that's initially hard to resist. Tilda swinton plays alathea binney, a modern day literary scholar, who specializes in the study of narratives.
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"He's a new arrival. People look down upon him. And it's not necessarily south. I mean, he has a bad personality, but he takes it personally. And so robbing the hotel Theresa would be sticking his finger in the eye of this Harlem elite who looks down upon him. Let me reintroduce you here. If you're just joining us, my guest is Colson Whitehead, his new novel is called Harlem shuffle. We'll be right back. This is fresh air. This is fresh air. Let's get back to my interview with Colson Whitehead. His new novel Harlem shuffle is set in Harlem between 1959 and 64. It's a crime novel. Mount Morris park, which is now called Marcus garvey park, is a place where bodies are buried. In the novel. If you've killed somebody, that's the place to hide the body. And a lot of our listeners who aren't familiar with Harlem might know mount Morris park, now Marcus garvey park from the questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem cultural festival, Cassatt festival was held in mount Morris park. So what do you know? I mean, was it really, is this part of the park's lore or is it really true that their bodies were buried there? What's the story? Yeah, not buried but dumped. And so dumped, yes. Yeah, yeah, so I went to newspapers for what's happening in the city. And starting with underground railroad, primary sources are really just great for me to suck up slang and culture. So whether it was William Burroughs, who has a book called junkie and it's about being a junkie and small time hustler and in Harlem all over Manhattan in the 40s and 50s, giving me the language of the small time white hustlers. Or the wife of Bumpy Johnson helping me out. Bumpy Johnson was a big Harlem mobster.
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Yeah, and I can't speak for all of them, but that was definitely a real force that sort of socialist stratification. Where are you from? Are you first generation college? Or third generation? Do you come from a long line of free black folks? Or have you just come from Alabama last year? And now you're trying to make it. And try to be one of us. And so colorism and class ratification exists everywhere. And part of the second part of the book is pulling back to see these other social forces that are affecting Carney. He has a bad background. He's darker skinned. And how does he navigate this hoity toity privileged world? Can you talk about how Harlem has changed from the time the novelist set 59 to 64 to now? Because I imagine you spend a lot of time in Harlem while you were writing the novel, even though it has changed. Yeah, I mean, you know, location scouting and finding places for cornea live, that was a great fun thing to do. I lived in Harlem. And so I was about 6 on a 139th and riverside, so my first New York is a very Gritty dirty New York. But for research, I would go back to newspapers and there are books about the hotel Theresa. And then also, you know, if you go to YouTube and put in 1960s Harlem, some amateur filmmaker from back then has uploaded his reel of walking down a 125th street. And in 64, 67. And for me, I look at all the signs in the background. I'm like, oh, okay, a hamburger was 35 cents, or what kind of hat is that? And then I research what kind of clothes they're wearing. And so when I compare the footage of just some guy walking around with this camera to what I see now and those tiny storefronts are now big box chains. It's Chuck E. Cheese, big Nike store. Magic Johnson theaters. The footprint of retail is quite different.
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"The challenge of recreating a New York before I appeared on the scene, I was born in 69. Was a nice challenge to put before me. Do you see a through line between, say, underground railroad? And your new novel, in the sense that after slavery and once Jim Crow started it and when lynchings and other forms of attacks against black people were so common, so many people from the south moved to the north and that's probably in one of the ways Harlem became Harlem. You know how Harlem became black as opposed to Jewish and Italian which it was before that you write Harlem was desegregated in 1940 after the neighborhood tipped over from Jews and Italians and became the domain of southern blacks and west Indians. I loved this line. Everyone who came uptown had crossed some variety of violent ocean. Yeah, I mean, there's this churn of immigrants in Harlem, which I found very fun to explore. A 150 years ago, Harlan is farmland as pasture land, and then speculators put up buildings. And then the tenements and townhouses are filled with all these refugees from Europe, and it is Italians and Irish Jews from all over all over Europe, Irish, and they come to make their way in this new country. They cross the water. They enter the middle class and move away to the suburbs, the downtown, different neighborhoods in Manhattan. They're replaced by a wave of black migration from the south, from the Caribbean, my grandmother came through Ellis island in the 1920s from Barbados. And so what I love in doing the research is walking through these different neighborhoods and seeing these old brownstones and townhouses and imagining that churn. I mentioned the churn of stolen goods in and out of people's hands. And there's this churn inside these humble townhouses, all those different lives, and those different rivers and notions that they've crossed to come here. And they enter the middle class, they don't, but there's so much in the same way there's all the secret history behind the storefronts, the bakeries and crooked stationary stores is this whole secret history in these townhouses. As we've mentioned, ray Carney is the son of a crook of a full-time crook. And Kearney's wife is from a middle class family. Her parents live on striver's row in Harlem, her father is successful accountant for successful businessmen, politicians, doctors, and lawyers in Harlem. Her father brags about his collection of loopholes and dodges. And he belongs to this club for the elite black community in Harlem called the Dumas. My pronouncing right, Dumas club. I think if you named after Alexander Dumas, but I figured these guys say Dumas, that seems like a mid century Harlem way to say it. So I am mentally I think of Dumas. Yeah, and so you describe it in the book as a paper bag club. Would you explain what that means? There were various social clubs for well to do black folks in the 19th and 20th centuries. And you could only enter them if you had a upstanding job. And also, if you're lighter than a paper bag, and so the paper bag test meant that if you were darker skinned, you're not accepted. And you're not going to join their little club. So there was that much colorism in the elite black clubs.
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Terry's 2021 interview with Colson Whitehead. He won Pulitzer prizes for his novels the nickel boys and The Underground Railroad, which was adapted into a Peabody Award winning TV series. His latest book Harlem shuffle is a crime novel set in Harlem between 1959 and 1964. It's now out in paperback. The main character ray Kearney is the owner of a furniture store on a 125th street, who's also trafficking and stolen goods as a fence. You said the novel in Harlem, it's a black world in Harlem and in your novel, except for the cops who are white. Was there a relief to write about Harlem after writing about an escaped slave who runs into every imaginable problem after escaping. I think doing underground the nickel boys back to back definitely took its toll. I mean, I think I had done all my emotional heavy lifting before I wrote underground railroad. And so I knew what I was getting into. But then having another setting where innocence are bringing brutalized and are searching for their freedom, really demoralized me. And so as I was finishing the nickel boys and bringing the boys closer to their tragic fate that I had mapped out two years before, I definitely felt very depressed and depleted, and I finished the book, and then just played video games and barbecued for 6 weeks, and that's how I came back into myself. So having a project that has the capacity for joking and humor, and I do see making jokes as part of my project and why I write, it's one of my avenues of exploration. So having fun with this crime genre and some of the supporting cast who are kind of colorful was relief, and from the first page of writing the book and getting back into writing a book set in New York, I felt I was on my home turf after writing two books set in the south.
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Local characters brought by the store. He could justify nothing major. Nothing had attracted undue attention to his store, the front, he put out to the world. If he got a thrill out of transforming these ill gotten goods into legit merchandise, a zap charge and his blood like he'd plugged into a socket, he was in control of it and not the other way around. Dizzying and powerful as it was. Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw. What mattered were your major streets and boulevards to stuff that showed up on other people's maps of you. The thing inside him that gave a yell or tug or shout down and again was not the same thing as father had. That sickness drawing every moment into its service, the sickness Freddie ministered to more and more. Corny had a bent to his personality. How could he not growing up with a father like that? You had to know your limits as a man and master them. Thanks for reading that. That's Colson Whitehead. Reading from his new novel Harlem shuffle. So after writing novels with really big social themes, The Underground Railroad on the nickel boys. What did you want to write a crime novel? Set in Harlem in 1959 to 64. Yeah, well, I usually do mix it up. Write a serious book or more sober book, and then something lighter with more jokes. I originally was going to follow up The Underground Railroad with Harlem shuffle, but then after the last election, presidential election, I had to sort out my feelings about being in America. Are we heading in the right direction or my optimistic or pessimistic? And so the philosophical dilemma of the two boys and the nickel boys was more compelling. But that meant when I finished that book, I had all these notes for Harlem shuffle, and I was eager to get back to it.
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Our guest Colson Whitehead is a two time Pulitzer Prize winner for his novels The Underground Railroad and the nickel boys. The Underground Railroad is about a 15 year old enslaved girl who escapes a brutal Georgia plantation. It was adapted into a Peabody Award winning TV series. The nickel boys is based on the story of the Dozier school for boys in northern Florida, a reform school infamous for its mistreatment and brutal punishment of boys who were sent there and for buried bodies discovered on its grounds. There are many sides to Colson Whitehead's writing. He also wrote a novel about a plague where everyone who's infected becomes a zombie and a memoir about playing poker. His latest book is a crime novel called Harlem shuffle, said in Harlem between 1959 and 1964. It's now out in paperback. The main character ray Kearney owns a furniture store on a 125th street in Harlem. But he has a sideline trafficking in stolen goods as a fence, or as he prefers to think of it a middle man. Nothing like his father, who was more of a full-time crook with crooked Friends. The novel is about raised dual life, class divisions within Harlem and the crimes of the elite compared to crimes on raised level. Terry spoke with Colson Whitehead last year. Colson Whitehead, welcome back to fresh air. I love this novel. Thanks for writing it. And thanks for coming back to our show. Yeah, thanks for having me back. It's very exciting. I want to start by asking you to do a reading and just to set this up a little bit. So ray Kearney is a fence. And it basically deals with pretty small time stuff. But his cousin, who is more of a full-time crook and this is a cousin who ray has bailed out all of the cousin's life. The cousin Freddie comes to him and says, look, we're doing a heist of a safe at the hotel Theresa.
AP News Radio
Songs by Wu-Tang, Alicia Keys added to Recording Registry
"The the the the library library library library of of of of Congress Congress Congress Congress has has has has announced announced announced announced twenty twenty twenty twenty five five five five recordings recordings recordings recordings it it it it considers considers considers considers as as as as important important important important contributions contributions contributions contributions to to to to American American American American culture culture culture culture that that that that will will will will be be be be part part part part of of of of the the the the national national national national recording recording recording recording registry registry registry registry I I I I marches marches marches marches are are are are a a a a letter letter letter letter with with with with the the the the latest latest latest latest secured secured secured the the the four four four tops tops tops as as as they they they recorded recorded recorded reach reach reach out out out I'll I'll I'll be be be there there there as as as an an an experiment experiment experiment he he he never never never thought thought thought would would would make make make it it it onto onto onto an an an album album album now now now it's it's it's one one one of of of the the the songs songs songs the the the library library library of of of Congress Congress Congress wants wants wants to to to preserve preserve preserve as as as culturally culturally culturally important important important other other other singles singles singles that that that make make make the the the list list list include include include journey's journey's journey's don't don't don't stop stop stop Believin Believin Believin and and and Ricky Ricky Ricky Martin's Martin's Martin's Livin Livin Livin la la la vida vida vida loca loca loca among among among the the the albums albums albums that that that make make make the the the registry registry registry or or or Bonnie Bonnie Bonnie Raitt's Raitt's Raitt's Nick Nick Nick of of of time time time Alicia Alicia Alicia keys keys keys songs songs songs in in in a a a minor minor minor and and and the the the low low low end end end theory theory theory by by by a a a tribe tribe tribe called called called quest quest quest the the the oldest oldest oldest recording recording recording is is is the the the Harlem Harlem Harlem struck struck struck by by by James James James B. B. B. Johnson Johnson Johnson from from from nineteen nineteen nineteen twenty twenty twenty one one one the the the list list list also also also includes includes includes the the the radio radio radio call call call of of of Hank Hank Hank Aaron's Aaron's Aaron's seven seven seven hundred hundred hundred fiftieth fiftieth fiftieth career career career home home home run run run
The Doug Collins Podcast
Why Ralph Reed Created the Faith and Freedom Coalition
"Faith and freedom is one of the foremost reaching out. The grassroots, the bottom line, looking at these issues, if for people who strangely enough may know Ralph Reed, but they don't know faith in freedom or how they're working or maybe they're in a state in which, you know, that movement is still growing. How do people reach out to faith and freedom? How do you find out more about what's going on? And of course, we're going to be back on later in another day talking about some of these other issues, but I wanted to give you just a few minutes to just talk about faith and freedom. Sure. Well, I found it faith and freedom in 2009. After Barack Obama, you know, beat us so badly that it looked like a Harlem globetrotters basketball game. And we were the we were the pickup team that was there to lose. And they completely out hustled us on the ground, the O 8 Obama campaign. I knew we were going to lose and lose badly. When I got a call from a good friend of mine who lived in Akron, Ohio. In that band of counties that stretches from Cleveland east. And he called me and said, I just got my second door to door knock. Visit at the door from an Obama organizer with a clipboard, and I'm a Republican primary voter, and I know they know it. And I went, wow. They've knocked on every door and visited every democratic primary voter. Then they've gone to all the swing voters, all the independent voters. Now they're going to Republican voters. So I started faith and freedom to give us that kind of maximization of turnout among our core voters, which are voters of faith. Both pro life, faithful Roman Catholics, and evangelical Christians. Doug, those two together, the evangelicals are roughly 27% of the electorate. It goes up or down, depending upon the election, but it's roughly 27%. Faithful frequently mass attending Catholics are, again, rough number goes up or down. Is about 10% of the electorate. So you're looking at 37 percent of the entire electorate. It's the biggest single constituency bigger than the minority vote. The union vote and the gay vote combined, and it's over half the Republican vote. And we now have two and a half million members and activists involved in the organization over a million small donors, we have full-time staff and about 14 states now, state organizations and about 30 states. And if people want to find out how they can get involved and how they can make sure that the values that you and I share are represented in the civic arena and in public policy and that Christians have an effective voice in government, they can go to our website, which is FF as in faith and freedom, FF coalition, dot com, and they can sign up and believe me, we'll put them to
The Larry Elder Show
NYC Councilwoman Says She Was Told Don't Tweet About Cops
"As I mentioned, the second NYPD officer who was shot on that domestic violence call in Harlem has now died. A council woman in New York named Christian Richardson Jordan after the shooting, she tweeted two hours later about a concerned over a neighborhood community garden being shut down. Didn't tweet one word about the officers being shot. After she was hammered on social media for her tweet, she then said this and I'm quoting. I have been asked not to tweet about it referring to the shooting. At this time, but I will definitely address it quote. Who asked you not to tweet about it? Who told you not to say anything about it? Now this is the same woman who as I said yesterday had absolutely no problem tweeting about how honory the police are. Here's what she said back in June of last year and I'm quoting she tweeted always remember that the police and prison systems were created to preserve slavery. I kid you not. To break the chains, we must fight for total abolition.
AP News Radio
2nd NYPD officer dies, days after Harlem shooting
"A a a a second second second second officer officer officer officer who who who who was was was was shot shot shot shot responding responding responding responding to to to to a a a a Harlem Harlem Harlem Harlem mother's mother's mother's mother's call call call call for for for for help help help help has has has has died died died died twenty twenty twenty twenty seven seven seven seven year year year year old old old old New New New New York York York York police police police police officer officer officer officer Wilbert Wilbert Wilbert Wilbert Maura Maura Maura Maura was was was was gravely gravely gravely gravely wounded wounded wounded wounded in in in in a a a a shooting shooting shooting shooting that that that that took took took took the the the the life life life life of of of of his his his his partner partner partner partner Jason Jason Jason Jason Rivera Rivera Rivera Rivera on on on on Friday Friday Friday Friday no no no no more more more more has has has has also also also also died died died died of of of of his his his his injuries injuries injuries injuries according according according according to to to to police police police police commissioner commissioner commissioner commissioner Kishan Kishan Kishan Kishan sue sue sue sue all all all all in in in in a a a a tweet tweet tweet tweet the the the the commissioner commissioner commissioner commissioner described described described described more more more more as as as as three three three three times times times times a a a a hero hero hero hero for for for for choosing choosing choosing choosing a a a a life life life life of of of of service service service service sacrificing sacrificing sacrificing sacrificing his his his his life life life life for for for for others others others others and and and and for for for for choosing choosing choosing choosing organ organ organ organ donation donation donation donation the the the the two two two two officers officers officers officers were were were were called called called called to to to to a a a a Harlem Harlem Harlem Harlem apartment apartment apartment apartment by by by by a a a a woman woman woman woman who who who who was was was was trying trying trying trying to to to to convince convince convince convince her her her her son son son son to to to to get get get get help help help help for for for for mental mental mental mental health health health health issues issues issues issues the the the the gunman gunman gunman gunman forty forty forty forty seven seven seven seven year year year year old old old old Sean Sean Sean Sean McNeil McNeil McNeil McNeil threw threw threw threw open open open open the the the the bedroom bedroom bedroom bedroom door door door door and and and and shot shot shot shot the the the the officers officers officers officers as as as as they they they they walked walked walked walked down down down down a a a a narrow narrow narrow narrow hallway hallway hallway hallway McNeil McNeil McNeil McNeil was was was was shot shot shot shot by by by by a a a a third third third third officer officer officer officer and and and and died died died died on on on on Monday Monday Monday Monday his his his his mother mother mother mother told told told told the the the the New New New New York York York York Post Post Post Post she she she she would would would would never never never never have have have have made made made made the the the the phone phone phone phone call call call call had had had had she she she she known known known known he he he he was was was was going going going going to to to to be be be be violent violent violent violent towards towards towards towards the the the the police police police police I'm I'm I'm I'm Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer Jennifer king king king king
Mark Levin
New York Post: 2 NYPD Officers Shot, Responding to Domestic Disturbance in Harlem
"This is from the New York Post Two NYPD officers won a rookie with just over a year on the job were shot dead while responding to a domestic violence call today in Harlem multiple police sources said The gunfire erupted just before 6 30 p.m. inside an apartment One of the officers was struck in the face by gunfire The suspect was also fatally shot The NYPD urge residents in a tweet to void the area may Eric Adams was headed to Harlem hospital where the officers were rushed after the shooting The unidentified officers is unbelievable Are the fourth and 5th members of the NYPD to be injured by gunfire so far in 2022 but they're dead They weren't just injured I mean these were young officers one joined in November 2020 and the other in 2018 The shooting comes a day after an NYPD detective was shot during a drug bust on Staten Island
WNYC 93.9 FM
"harlem" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Night in Harlem by the great Louis Armstrong Now we'd like to play a piece that was actually written for Louis Armstrong That you Santa Claus Another Victor goings arrangement It features knocking on the door drums different sounds stop times breaks that you Santa Claus Is that you That's somebody wondering about it and we have to sing it the wonderful miss Renee Marie She brings the right type of sauce to it Is that you Santa Claus Santa Claus Is that you Sounds like If some preparing for some Christmas sharing but I pause be good I'm in my stocking I can hear an I can is that you Santa Claus show is dark out in the slightest fuck out on my slack in jail oh who that who is it Is it that you Santa Claus are you bringing up present for me something pleasantly pleasant for me if it's just what I've been waiting for would you mind just slipping into the door old ones howling or maybe that's growling my legs feel like my mom made my honey would you reply that you Santa Claus Is out of cloth Is my new Santa Claus won't now sign up you gave me a scare.
AP News Radio
‘Summer of Soul,’ ‘Drive My Car’ make Oscars shortlist
"We we now now have have a a better better idea idea of of what what movies movies have have a a better better shot shot at at scoring scoring Oscar Oscar nominations nominations the the motion motion picture picture academy academy is is rolling rolling on on that that short short list list for for several several categories categories including including documentaries documentaries and and original original music music and and the the documentary documentary category category the the academy academy whittled whittled the the list list of of a a hundred hundred and and thirty thirty eight eight eligible eligible films films down down to to fifteen fifteen among among those those making making the the grade grade R. R. Questlove Questlove summer summer of of soul soul it's it's a a documentary documentary about about a a huge huge in in nineteen nineteen sixty sixty nine nine musical musical festival festival in in Harlem Harlem one one that that was was overshadowed overshadowed that that summer summer bite bite Woodstock Woodstock others others include include films films about about Billie Billie Eilis Eilis Julia Julia child child and and the the infamous infamous Attica Attica prison prison in in New New York York state state musical musical foods foods include include Beyonce Beyonce say say Billy Billy Irish Irish and and you you too too the the full full set set of of nominations nominations will will be be announced announced February February eighth eighth I'm I'm Oscar Oscar wells wells Gabriel Gabriel
The Book Review
"harlem" Discussed on The Book Review
"Twenties she threw in her lot with this famous novelists because he was famous at twenty five having written his novel burden brooks. She knew what she was getting herself. In for and one of the happy parts was he never looked at another woman. An old years she. I think was cleverer than he was. I think more politically astute than he was a think. The marriage oddly enough and being happy and fulfilled strangely and she knew he was game. There's a moment in. Her book told unwritten memories where she describes being advanced with him. Nine hundred eleven just before he wrote death in venice and yes he said yes. Tommy did looked at this boy. This beautiful boy on beach. yes. I do remember that. He didn't follow him in the streets but he did laugh at him all the time. He was intrigued by its beauty and that we take a real acknowledgement. Oh i don't think she was in any depth but if she if she was in dust diaries were published. Twenty five years after his death when she was still alive and his diaries. I think chairman scholars people working on his fiction. Berg surprised in his diaries when opened published in nineteen eighty to find that he has explicit accounts of his desires and is he would pee at a reading. Even be on the podium. You'll be talking about serious matters. In german literature about girth or beethoven wagner but actually was thinking would be a boy in the second row or young man at the third row. I would catch any with. That is j's thomas. Mann's gaze was particularly intense. We learned that the diaries and so so this most respected with man visited the white house. Friend roosevelt consider the most important german alive during the second world war. Two great democratic great believer in freedom for enemy of hitler and fascism had a secret life. A life of secrets is is. Let's talk about putin brooks which you know he. He wrote when he was twenty five. Which i still upsetting and shocking away that someone could produce something like that. So young to what extent was it autobiographical and and was it deliberately autobiographical. He had lost new beck where he was born in. The north of germany is family was a well known family owned ships. Warehouses father was a senator father dies when he's fourteen and in his will says that the entire companies to be wound up and his mother leaves look back to munich so in other words by the age of sixteen or seventeen. Thomas man has lost his important place in this city. In other words they owned a number of houses he was everyone knew him on the street and suddenly he's nobody now. This is a great gift to arrive in a way where now anything early twenties. He begins to reconstruct that world. there's completely obliterated and he goes back three generations. He writes about his great grandfather. He writes about the source. Strange decline of this great commercial family. And what he does with his own generation is although he's one of a family of five he makes seven only child and it gives him seven extraordinary precocious musical talent and instead of his mother being brazilian which is mother was born in brazil. He makes his mother exotic also coming from amsterdam rather than visit. He changes that and he also in the novel. Of course he kills himself. He gives hanno a fatal disease so that we watched the actual death off the author imagining his own death as a young teenager..
The Book Review
"harlem" Discussed on The Book Review
"But but it is the same idea that you take a figure about whom a great amount has been written but who remains me ambiguous or hard to pin down or shadowy and you attempt then not to be moved shadows and find substance but to work constantly with the shadows to mold the shadows and find the texture within them over a life. That is i think mysterious. Still the life of henry james or the figure that he was or the i suppose gaps or distances in in between one thing and another if you say one thing about him. The opposite is often true so explored that in the and then i think sixteen years later. I have another figure the same sort i should say. I don't have a third but these these are two figures worked. Have been reading since i was in my teens. And then who. Both of them are views of them. Changed in the one thousand. Nine hundred eighty s as more more information became available about them as other books were published. As some of henry james's letters appeared for the first time in the eighties and nineties. And indeed when thomas mountain diaries republics twenty five years after his death. Both of them obviously had one thing in common more than one thing. I'm sure about when major thing. Which is that. They were both of course. Gay deeply closeted was that part of the the mystery that you'd think intrigued you that you spoke about earlier that you mentioned a yes. I think how they navigate this or how they don't the amount of revelation and concealment sometimes both at the same moment in their works. Interested me but but that wouldn't be enough for me in other words. Oscar wilde was gay. But i couldn't think of writing a novel about him but interestingly about both of these figures also is their relationship to home our native country in other words james very early in his life his father moved the family to europe back and forth to your back and forth to new england. So that by the time he arrives to live in england. When he's in his thirties he really has no home. And succumbing sense of trying to find one trying to go to lamb house in rye in sussex and england and set up a home there but of course he was solitary. He was a bachelor. So there's always an uneasy sort of flickering relationship to home and thomas mann in nineteen thirty-three was outside germany when hitler came to power and he didn't come back in warrenton not and so he so he goes to switzerland to france then eventually arrives in princeton and ninety thirty eight and then eventually to california in nineteen forty one and so he spends the warriors outside germany thinking germany sort of living in.
The Book Review
"harlem" Discussed on The Book Review
"It's from nineteen twelve after the sinking of the titanic. Thomas hardy wrote a poem called the convergence of the twain which appeared on the front page of the paper and here's the op-ed which appeared a few days later if.
The Book Review
"harlem" Discussed on The Book Review
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The Book Review
"harlem" Discussed on The Book Review
"His pay grade so can't survive and then there's a revenge paper where he gives into his dark side and decides need some pave after a social wrong and then no-one described the third one in each one. You know. I think harding has to face. What kind of man he is is he that humble store owner or is he like his father. I'm giving into that darkness. That's with him. I think all of us. I think all of us have that self. We are more alone with friends with family at work and we juggle is different personas sometimes those hoses personalities aren't so starkly different and then sometimes sometimes are definitely in the case of carney particularly the new book. He's one person night as you come up with these schemes and one person at noon in this store in described him coming up with these ideas for these heist and the fact that hi sir generally always a bad idea. What's the process for you coming up with the ideas of. What is the house going to be. Does that come naturally. Was it hard to think of what the scheme was. It's hard to actually execute them. You know i have to make. This is hotel highs convincing the reader pickers and where is in a right in saying like no actually safe deposit boxes in nineteen sixty four a secret. Latch that prevented you from opening them this way. So i think heathrow luckily haven't editor who like really is really is nippy so so there's a whole hopefully we'll pick it up another fact check i imagine for you could come from your parents right because they grew up in central harlem in the nineteen sixties. Yes my momma started be saying. I found the hotel theresa That's gets robbed on. The first floor of chock.
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"And now would their revolutionary. Spn you can jot down notes while video calling no paper necessary. Five g connection and availability may vary check with carrier are film critic. Justin chang has a review of the new movie blue by you. This drama is about a korean american man in his thirties. Who's about to be sent back to his birth country. He was legally adopted when he was three but through. No fault of his own never became a us citizen blue by you was written and directed by justin chon. Who also the film's star. Here's justin's review blue by. You moved me a lot more than i expected or maybe even wanted it to seem by seen this story of a korean american adoptee facing deportation is frequently heavy handed and overwrought. There were moments when i was certain. Loved it only for two. Reel me back in by the end. I found myself wiping away. Furious tears little angry. Perhaps at the filmmakers for their sledgehammer tactics but much angrier at the injustice of what they show us in immigration system that can tear families apart. The separation of families by government agencies. Like ice has gotten a lot of attention in recent years but blue by tells a different kind of immigration story. It was written and directed by justin. Sean who also stars antonio a new orleans tattoo artist antonio is happily married to a nurse named..
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Is fresh air. Let's get back to my interview with colson. Whitehead his new novel harlem. Shuffle is set in harlem between nineteen fifty nine and sixty four. It's a crime novel mount morris park which is no called. Marcus garvey park is a place where bodies are buried in the novel. Like if you if you've killed somebody that's the place to hide the body And a lot of our listeners. Who aren't familiar with harlem. Might know mount morris park. Now marcus garvey park from the quest of documentary about the nineteen sixty nine harlem cultural festival. Cassatt festival was held in mount morris. Park so what do you know was it really. Is this part of like the parks. Laura or is it really true. Their bodies are buried there. What's the story Yeah not buried but dumped and so yes yes so. I went to newspapers for what's happening in the city..
Fresh Air
"harlem" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Problem f- after escaping. I think doing underground the nickel boys back to back definitely took its toll. I mean i think i had done my emotional heavy lifting before i wrote underground road and so i knew what i was getting into but then having another setting where innocence are bringing brutalized and are searching for their freedom really demoralized me and so as i was finishing nickel boys and bring the boys closer to their tragic fate that i'd mapped out. You know two years before. I thought very depressed and depleted and finish the book. And then just play video games and barbecued for six weeks. And that's how. I came back into myself so having a project that has the capacity for joking and humor and i see making jokes as part of my project. And why why right. It's one of my avenues of exploration so having having fun with this crime genre and some of the supporting cast are kind of colorful was relief and from the first page of writing the book and getting back into needed writing a book said new york. I thought i was on my home turf. After writing two books set in the south and and the challenge of recreating a newark. Before i appeared on the scene i was born in sixty nine Was a nice challenge for me. Do you see a through line between say underground railroad and your new novel in the sense that after slavery and once jim crow started and when you know lynchings and other forms of attacks against black people were so common so many people from the south moved to the north and that's probably one of the ways harlem became harlem. I know how harlem became black as opposed to jewish and italian which it was before that you write harlem was desegregated in nineteen forty after the neighborhood tipped over from jews and italians and became the domain of southern blacks and west indians. I love this line. Everyone who came up uptown had crossed some variety of violent ocean. I mean you know. There's this churn of immigrants in harlem which i found very fun to explore the hundred years ago. Harlan is farmland pasture. Land speculators put a buildings and the tenants and townhouses are filled with all these refugees from from europe and it is italians and irish jews from elaborate all over europe irish and they come to make their way in this new country. The cross the water they entered the middle class and move away to the suburbs downtown. Different neighborhoods in manhattan. The replaced by a wave of a black migration from the south from the caribbean. My grandmother came through ellis island in nineteen twenty s from barbados. And so what. I love the research walking through these different neighborhoods and seeing these old brownstone townhouses and imagining that churn. I mentioned the churn of stolen goods in out of people's hands. And there's this churn inside these humble townhouses all those different lives and those different rivers and oceans that they've they've crossed come year and dancer the middle class. They don't but there's so much the same as all the secret. History behind the storefronts the bakeries and crooked stationery stores. Is this whole secret. History in these townhouses. As we've mentioned. Ray carney is the son of a of a crook of fulltime crook and carney's wife is from a middle class family. Her parents live on strivers row in harlem. Her father is successful accounting for successful businessmen politicians doctors and lawyers in harlem. Her father brags about his collection of loopholes and dodgers and he belongs to this club for the elite black community in harlem called the demoss my pronouncing right duma's club i think if it's named after alexander dumol but i figure these guys say do moss that seems like essentially mentally. I think of demoss..
Just Between Us
Grubhub Accused of Overcharging Restaurants Amid COVID Pandemic in New Lawsuits
"Ingram hub in new york city a lot of restaurants. We're finding that they were getting charged for phone calls. Now you think about that. And you're like that's kind of weird. How could grub charge a restaurant for a phone call. The way they do that is when you go to the grub up pitch for your favorite restaurant they generate a number that route routes through grub hub. I so you're actually calling the restaurant but not before grab the mafia daughter for you right. But like this is why they feel like it's mafia. They opened the door for you. They're not providing any service besides discovery. Personally i've done this. I i wanna call the restaurant directly order from them and reduced that mission costs so i go and they don't like maybe have a website or maybe grow is the first thing that shows up so i clicked on crop up. Call that phone number now. I know they are not getting a benefit from that. They're still being charged. And what's weird about it is. They can't determine the order that you've done so they do like an average so like they between like for this restaurant the hampel noodle the ex-pat in in harlem charging like five to eight dollars five to seven dollars about like approximately per order so like if i'm ordering like an eleven dollar noodles myself and now they're being charged five to seven dollars for that like that's a crazy amount of money. In a lot of cases it's an algorithm that was determining how charge because there's nobody on the phone listening. Actually i listening to the calls so the algorithm says this call last thirty seconds. It's an order but sometimes it wasn't an order. The person was like hey like do you have this dish like and they were like no and i actually hung up and drop hub was actually chart charging for that. Oh this is. there's a lawsuit actually a couple of lawsuits. That have happened outside of new york city or people have sued for group. Says like you're right. We should only charge for orders on the phone that resulted order so they still believe that like it should be able to get money also phone call orders but they basically saying there are a lot of fraudulent charge. There are some fraudulent charges that
Wardrobe Crisis
How to Be Old With Accidental Icon's
"Lynn. Welcome to the crisis focused. I'm very happy that we're doing this enchanting about for a while yes. I'm really happy that we finally got the chance to do it. Do you want to begin just by telling us where you are because you in a new area. You've moved yes. I have on in a small city on the hudson river about an hour. North of new york city called peekskill. Last time we talked you living in new york city and i called you during the so worst potentially pot of the cova crisis or the most stressful beginning of that. Do you remember i do. We're having this conversation about sustainability really. Yes we were. And i think it was almost around the time of fashion revolution. Which actually was very transformative for me that year. Where was your apartment. It was on the upper east side close to east harlem. It was six hundred square feet and our only recourse for any kind of fresh air was a roof on the top of our building that you had to sign up for an only one person could be up there at a time. I do remember telling me that. The city felt like it was pulsing with sirens and it was like a kind of and like just. The covert thing was so frightening. When i went up on the route. That was really really what you heard. It was siren after siren after siren is lives just a couple of blocks from a major hospital and in a way it reminded me of after nine eleven the days immediately after where all you heard where
Encyclopedia Womannica
The Life of Florynce Kennedy
"Florence rey kennedy or flow was born on february eleventh nineteen sixteen in kansas city missouri to wiley zella kennedy while he made his living as a pullman porter and leader started taxi. Company the kennedy family experienced poverty during the great depression and racism from the local ku klux klan after a house in a majority white neighborhood but flow nevertheless described her childhood as an incredibly happy one. Her parents were exceptionally supportive of their daughters flow. Once said my parents gave us a fantastic sense of security and were by the time the big. It's got around to telling us that we were nobody. We already knew. Somebody flow was an excellent student and graduated at the top of her class after high school. She and her sisters opened a hat shop together. In kansas city flow also started getting involved in local political protests. She helped organize a boycott against a local coca cola. Bottler who refused to hire black delivery drivers in nineteen forty two flows. Mothers ella died of cancer afterwards flow and her sister. Grace moved to new york city and rented an apartment together in harlem in nineteen forty. Four flu started at columbia university or she majored in pre law after graduation flow applied to columbia law school but was denied admission. According to the dean of the law. School the denial was a result of flow being a woman not because she was black flow wasn't buying it and threatened to sue at which point the admissions board changed. Its mind she was one of only eight women and the only black woman in her law school class
Revision Path
Interview With Content Creator, Jeffrey Henderson
"All right so tell us who you are. And what. You do so jeffrey allen. Hindi cinema creative based in harlem new york Team about ten. We take one. Everything from product design to content creation has the european knowing so far. Ooh the years actually ran pretty good. We actually had a nice growth year not in terms of state business. Businesses always been pretty standard even when we went through the trials and tribulations that code. But i think i broaden young folks for the first time and made it official last year so we had some growing pains in terms of people just learning how to be creative in like sort of corporate settings knock corporate setting so that was very new to a lot of us and having agency. Don't like that this year has been. I think an extension of that banana. Everything's opening when the team is definitely more seasons. Surround more exciting because of things i know we can take off so it's been pretty good. I mean i'm i'm pretty sure. People listening can hear the birds in the background. Sounds like you're like some ideal spot right now which is good which is good. I think after the year no no no after after the year. I think all of us have had a little bit of mother. Nature's is gladly. Welcome at this point. Do you have any plans for the summer with agency. Oh this summer where what. We're trying to get back together jordan. I guess january of this year. We had pretty much all tin folks in harlem essentially about five of them stadium. We have a studio here an apartment that we actually ran out airbnb but when we don't it's actually our studio so everybody was sort of working together and that was i. Guess when the world was still kinda close saw. We're gonna try to do a little bit of data again since we can't really travel to the places we need to travel at work on. We're gonna just come back. York settled down in light. He grow
Filmspotting
Black Widow Movie Review
"Spectacle of the big screen. Variety has also been in great supply recently. We'll get to several new releases this week. Well several being four steven soderbergh's latest the crime drama. No sudden move. That came to hbo. Max last week. Don cheadle the neo del toro and a bunch of other great actors in that one also summer of soul from first time. Director quests love came to theaters into hulu that concert doc about a nineteen sixty nine harlem concert series that featured performances by nina simone stevie wonder sly and the family stone and many more all of those having never been seen since nineteen sixty nine our review of that one could just be a ranking of our top five favorite moments. We might. We might even do that. Josh that would probably get us through the first half hour of the movie. I think we can pick five from that. Yeah you also caught up with zola which stars riley keough a wild road trip tale inspired at least in part by an infamous twitter thread. I can't wait for you to unpack that and more later in the show. But i the is finally back on a big screen near you after a handful of disney plus streaming series phase for kicks off with the scarlett johansson starring feature black widow. Fine an enter. I mean mistakes. A lot of enemies is called signs. Taskmaster he controls the red room. They're manipulated fully conscious but no choices. I should have come back for you. How many others are call. Her black widow call her and natasha. Romanoff scarlett johansson returns as the former kgb assassin turned avenger in the twenty fourth mc feature which is named after her now timeline. Wise black widow takes place in the aftermath of captain america civil war. I think i've got that right. Adam had to confirm it with my daughter who knows more about the than i do. I think that's correct
After The Fact
Driving Diversity in Economics With Fanta Traore
"I am originally from new york city one of the most diverse cities in the world arguably but also one of the most segregated and so growing up in that environment. That brought up a lot of questions for me related to opportunity and resource distribution. And in hindsight. I know that these are all questions. That are central to economics. And just to give you an example of the kind of questions. I was thinking about growing up. I was wondering about. When i cross crossover from manhattan into harlem why the neighborhoods was so different. Why the harlem side wasn't as clean as say the manhattan side for instance in the way. I rationalized this as a young person. Was that this had to do it. Politics and to some degree it does so. That's what led me to go into howard university setting political science and also having a focus on african politics because of my mauleon heritage as well but what was really a turning point for me in my economics. Career was when i did a summer program at princeton where a policymaker introduced the concept of economic research to work that she did to us and basically what she shared with that she use economic research to end a food desert in harlem. And when i learned about that i was completely mind blown and so excited to learn more. So i went back to howard and declared a second major and that was economics and emit a mad dash of taking nearly ten classes so that i could now have this economics major but it was one of the best decisions that i've made
Encyclopedia Womannica
The Short and Difficult Life of Billie Holiday
"About one of the most iconic jazz singers in history. She let us short and difficult life filled with trial and tragedy though. She had no formal musical training. She had a natural gift for jazz musically and emotionally connecting with audiences. Let's talk about billie holiday. Ellinora fagin was born in nineteen fifteen in philadelphia to teenage parents clarence holiday and sadie fagan soon. After eleanor's birth clarence left the family. He would go on to become a successful guitar and banjo player. But would be largely absent. In eleanor's life cd and ellinora moved to baltimore to live with savings older half sister. Eva miller and eve as mother-in-law martha eleanor would often be left with martha as her mother. An aunt worked jobs that took them out of the house for weeks at a time ellinora. Meanwhile began skipping school at just nine years old ellinora was brought to court on truancy charges and was sent to the house of the good shepherd. A reform school after nine months. Ellinora was paroled. But her homecoming was far from idyllic. Shortly after she returned home she was sexually assaulted by a neighborhood. Man ellinora was taken back into state custody this time for nearly two months upon her release. She dropped out of school at barely. Twelve years old. It was at this time that ellinora still a child store covering from trauma and working as a house cleaner. I heard records by the likes of louis armstrong and bessie smith in nineteen twenty eight. Sadie eleanor's mother moved from baltimore to harlem. The next year ellinora joined her sadie began working as a prostitute for their landlady out of a brothel on one hundred and fortieth street. I some accounts. Elenora ran errands for the brothel by others. Ellinora herself was a sex worker at barely. Fourteen years old over the subsequent three years ellinora began developing her singing. Act eventually landing a performance slot at a harlem nightclub though. She had no formal music training. Ellinora hadn't a neat sense of musical structure and theory jazz and blues genres. Who song rely on a singers. Well of pain and sadness or a natural fit for ellinora though just seventeen. She had already lived and survived a difficult life. She adopted the stage name. Billy after billie dove a favourite actress and started
It's Quite A Living
"harlem" Discussed on It's Quite A Living
"Hey it's a b moss and this is episode. seven of. it's quite a living. I wanted to add a special intro because this show is recorded a few weeks ago with my new friend ruth mcdaniels. Who's running for city council and district nine of harlem. You can find out more about ruth at friends of ruth mcdaniels dot com now. We actually met at a zoom fundraising event where she was invited with her artist. Friend named flash to also speak about the killing of george. Floyd had just happened. So i'm releasing it in honor of george floyd on the anniversary of his death. Well unfortunately some of ruth's audio went in and out. I do urge you to stick with it and listen carefully to all ruth mcdaniels has to say. I think you'll agree. It's quite a living roof mcdaniels so good to see you. I can see you but people will only hear you. But i think we want everybody to hear what you have to say. How are you. i'm good evening. I'm really good. And i think today absolutely look good. Well we're recording this spontaneously at the end of a day in the middle of the week and in the middle towards the tail end actually of your campaign to be elected to city council in harlem. Yeah we're a little tired but you're a trooper. You're amazing and that's.