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Exactly 56 years to the day after the 1968 student occupation at Columbia University was violently cleared by the New York Police Department, hundreds of police officers moved into the Manhattan campus on Tuesday night to quell a different kind of antiwar protest. Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested as police officers entered Columbia’s main campus, which was on lockdown, and cleared Hamilton Hall of a group who had broken in and occupied it the night before. It was a dizzying and, to many students and faculty, disturbing 24 hours on campus. Last time, students were protesting the Vietnam War and Columbia’s plans to expand its campus into Harlem. Both times, the students had occupied Hamilton Hall.
Organizations: Columbia University, New York Police Department, Hamilton, of, Hamilton Hall Locations: Manhattan, Columbia’s, Vietnam, Harlem, Gaza, Israel
Opinion: Winds of fate confront Trump
  + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +19 min
We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. To Trump’s delight, the top court’s session dimmed the chances the federal case will go to trial before the election. (Trump has denied the affairs with Daniels and McDougal and has pleaded not guilty to the hush money charges. Here’s why we should tune in anyway 04:27 - Source: CNNAs SE Cupp noted, “Trump and Biden debated twice in 2020. Chris Pizzello/Invision/APCNN anchor Victor Blackwell is a fervent Beyoncé fan but her foray into country music didn’t initially grab him.
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Opinion: What made Duke Ellington a true genius
  + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Opinion Sammy Miller | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
CNN —This spring marks both the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, and what would have been his 125th birthday. I use their particular ways of expressing themselves and it all becomes part of my own style.”To know Duke Ellington is to know his band — although few can name its other members today. Composer and bandleader Duke Ellington hovers over fellow pianist and band member Billy Strayhorn in this 1948 photograph. “Ellington plays the piano, but his real instrument is the band,” Strayhorn said. If it involved music, Ellington gave it a shot, always with his band in tow.
Persons: Sammy Miller, Duke Ellington’s, Duke ”, Ellington, , ” Ellington, Duke Ellington, Sonny Greer, Greer, Miley, Jimi Hendrix’s, Harry Carney, Billy Strayhorn, Strayhorn, “ Ellington, ” Strayhorn, , Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Clark Terry, Organizations: Juilliard, CNN, New, Washington D.C, Harlem Renaissance, Ellington, Getty Locations: Harlem, New York, Washington, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Sugar
“We are not going anywhere until our demands are met,” Khymani James, a student at Columbia University, said during a news briefing Wednesday. Student demonstrators occupy the pro-Palestinian "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the West Lawn of Columbia University on April 24, 2024 in New York City. The Columbia protesters are also calling for the university to “disclose and sever all ties” with the New York Police Department. For example, Columbia protesters want the university to sever ties with the school’s center in Tel Aviv and a dual degree program with Tel Aviv University. New York University protesters use the school’s Tel Aviv center as a rallying cry as well.
Persons: ” Khymani James, Michael M, , Mike Johnson, Charlie Eaton, , It’s, Mark Yudof, it’s, ” Yudof, Yudof, he’s, Jonathan Macey, Macey, ” Lauren Post, don’t, Cary Krosinsky, Lockheed Martin, Basil Rodriguez, Rodriguez, ” Rodriguez, John Towfighi Organizations: New, New York CNN — College, Hamas, Universities, Columbia University, Student, Lawn of Columbia University, Getty, University of Southern, , Princeton University, Ivy League, Columbia University Apartheid, Columbia, New York Police Department, Students, Tel Aviv University . New York University, Republican, University of California, “ Bankers, Yale Law School, Defamation League, Post, ADL, Yudof, BDS, Universities don’t, Yale, Lockheed, Raytheon, CNN Locations: New York, America, Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, New York City, University of Southern California, Harlem, Columbia, Tel Aviv, South Africa, Merced, Ivory, Iran, Russia
As a queer, nonbinary person, I've had to come out to my grandmother several times. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I was afraid coming out to my grandmother would harm our relationshipGrowing up, I had always gravitated towards my grandmother because I felt she understood me. After realizing I'm nonbinary, I came out to my grandmother a second timeOver the COVID-19 pandemic, I realized I identified as nonbinary. AdvertisementOne day during a visit at her apartment, my grandma told me about her aunt who lived on the Lower East Side.
Persons: I've, , I'm nonbinary, you'll, wasn't Organizations: Service Locations: Manhattan, Harlem
If Nemat Shafik, the president of Columbia University, has convinced the world of anything during these last several calamitous days, it is almost certainly that there is no position in American executive life as thankless, as depleting or less enviable than running a major academic institution in an age of chronic, reflexive agitation. Criticized for capitulating to congressional Republicans in a hearing on antisemitism last week, she quickly found she had not been nearly ingratiating enough. “There is a pretty broad consensus that bringing in the police was precipitous and counterproductive,” Christopher Brown, a history professor who spoke at the rally, told me. In the spring of 1968, Columbia’s president, Grayson Kirk, rarely depicted without a pipe, moved in comparatively slow motion in response to unrest that had become an inflection point in the wave of campus activism that was redirecting history. Within days, students had occupied five buildings, seized the president’s office and taken Dean Henry Coleman hostage, holding him in his office for 26 hours.
Persons: Nemat, capitulating, Shafik, ” Christopher Brown, , Grayson Kirk, Dean Henry Coleman Organizations: Columbia University, Republicans, Columbia, Barnard, New York Police Department Locations: Vietnam, Harlem
New York CNN —When Minouche Shafik was announced as Columbia University’s president last year, she was called the “perfect candidate” by the chair of Columbia’s Board of Trustees. University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and Harvard University president Claudine Gay both stepped down in the wake of pressure over their response to antisemitism on campus. They say the crackdown on student protests, which resulted in more than 100 arrests, violated academic freedom. “I am here today, joining my colleagues and calling on President Shafik to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos,” Johnson said. Last week, Shafik authorized the New York Police Department to sweep the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on Columbia’s campus.
Persons: Minouche Shafik, Shafik —, Liz Magill, Claudine Gay, Shafik, Alexandra Ocasio, Cortez, Mike Johnson, , ” Johnson, , James Finkelstein, “ She’s, ” Finkelstein, Grayson Kirk, Kirk, Columbia’s Hillel, Robert Kraft Organizations: New, New York CNN, Columbia, Trustees, Representatives, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Bank of England, London School of Economics, Hamas, College, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, New York Police Department, Democratic, Republican, George Mason University, ” Columbia’s, Police, NYPD, of Education, Harvard, Department, Education, ” New England Patriots Locations: New York, Israel, Vietnam, Harlem, Gaza, Columbia’s, Columbia,
Just before noon last Saturday, a 9-year-old girl was with her mother at Grand Central Terminal when a man strode up to the child and, without warning, punched her in the face, according to the police. The child, dizzy and in pain, was taken to the hospital. It was the second time in nine days that Mr. Zarzuela had randomly attacked someone at the terminal, the police said. On April 4, they said, he punched a 56-year-old woman in the face, causing her nose to bleed and her left eye to swell shut. And it was among a number of recent assaults that have unnerved New Yorkers, who have seen a rash of attacks reported on the streets and on the subway.
Persons: strode, Jean Carlos Zarzuela, Zarzuela Organizations: Grand Central Locations: East Harlem
Members of this prominent Democratic family, including most of Mr. Kennedy’s siblings, had already signaled their support for Mr. Biden. Just as President Biden does today.”“Nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden,” she said. “That’s right: The Kennedy family endorses Joe Biden for president.”Responding on social media, Mr. Kennedy avoided engaging with his family’s rejection of his candidacy. “I know you’re never supposed to reject a gift,” Mr. Kennedy joked as he held them. He then encouraged the roughly dozen people there to volunteer for the Biden campaign, arguing that their help could decide the election.
Persons: Kennedy, Biden, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, I’m, Kathleen, Rory, Joe, Chris, Max, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, , Kennedy’s, Biden’s, Jim Wilson, Donald, ” Kerry Kennedy, “ Daddy, Rose Kennedy, , , Mr, John, Kennedy —, John F, Martin Luther King, Donald J, Trump, Conor Lamb, Teenie Harris, Edward M, ” Joseph P, Kennedy II, Joseph P, Kennedy III, you’re, ” Mr Organizations: America, Biden, White, Democratic, Black, New York Times, Trump, PAC, Voters, Marquette Law School, Carnegie Museum of Art, Getty, Mr, Republican, MAGA Inc, Philly Locations: Philadelphia, America, Michigan, United States, Wisconsin, American, Pennsylvania, Kennedy, Washington, Pa, Harlem, Massachusetts
Seven jurors down, five more to go. The case against Mr. Trump stems from a hush-money payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who during the 2016 presidential campaign threatened to go public with her story of a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump. Prosecutors say Mr. Trump concealed her story, and others, to influence the election. But prosecutors say he falsified business records to cover up the sex scandal, and charged him last year with 34 felony counts. Many expected jury selection to be a weekslong slog, but seven jurors were seated on Tuesday afternoon.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Stormy Daniels, Daniels, Juan M Organizations: Prosecutors, Disney Locations: Ireland, Puerto Rico, Harlem
Former US President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Jeenah Moon | ReutersA full jury of 12 people was seated Thursday at the New York criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. "The whole world is watching this New York scam," Trump said. Trump has denounced the trial as a political "witch hunt" and complained that it keeps him off the campaign trail. Former President Donald Trump visits a bodega in the Harlem neighborhood of upper Manhattan where a worker killed a man who had assaulted him in 2022, on April 16, 2024 in New York City.
Persons: Donald Trump, Juan Merchan, Trump, Alvin Bragg's, Joe Biden, Stormy Daniels, Brendan McDermid, Merchan, Chris Conroy, Conroy, Jesse Watters, Elizabeth Williams, Reuters Conroy, Watters, Silvio Berlusconi, Berlusconi, Judge Juan Merchan, Spencer Platt Organizations: Reuters, New, Former U.S, Prosecutors, Fox News, Liberal, Manhattan Criminal, Trump, Via Reuters Trump, Getty Locations: Manhattan, New York, York, New York City, U.S, Italy, Italian, bodega, Harlem
He is married, likes to do "anything outdoorsy," and gets news from The New York Times, Fox News and MSNBC. He gets news from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Google. Juror 5A young woman who is a Harlem resident and works as a teacher. Juror 6A young woman who lives in Chelsea and works as a software engineer. Juror 10A man who works in commerce, reads The New York Times and listens to podcasts on behavioral psychology.
Persons: Donald Trump, Stormy Daniels, Donald, who's Organizations: U.S, Prosecutors, The New York Times, Fox News, MSNBC, Street, Google, Facebook, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Washington, CNN, New York Times, NBC Locations: Manhattan, New York City, U.S, New York, West Harlem, Trump, Chelsea, Harlem
Twelve Manhattanites have been chosen to serve on the jury for the first criminal trial of a U.S. president. The judge ordered that the jurors’ identities be kept confidential during the trial and that reporters withhold some information that could identify them. He said he had heard about some of former President Donald J. Trump’s other criminal cases, but he did not have an opinion about him. He said he follows Mr. Trump’s former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness, on social media. He said he believed Mr. Trump had done some good for the country, adding “it goes both ways.”
Persons: Donald J, Trump’s, Michael D, Cohen, Kellyanne Conway, Trump, Organizations: The New York Times, Fox News, MSNBC, New, Trump Locations: West Harlem, New York City
Keith Haring’s Legacy Is Not Found at the Museum
  + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Max Lakin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In their eyes I don’t exist.’”Haring’s frustration surely feels surprising for anyone who is familiar with his work, which is mostly everyone. You needn’t be able to name a Keith Haring picture to recognize it; its vibrating line and electric palette announce itself as efficiently as a neon sign. And it is more so now, 34 years after his death, in 1990 at the age of 31, as his work continues to permeate contemporary art. In his short but intense career, Haring’s pulsating figures became an inextricable part of New York City life, like ancient hieroglyphics that weren’t as much drawn as unearthed. And yet the most likely place you’ll encounter it now is still not the museum, but the mall, which was his own doing.
Persons: Keith Haring, ” Brad Gooch’s, Haring, , needn’t Organizations: Museum of Modern Art, Swatch, Medical Locations: New York City, East Harlem
New York City CNN —Donald Trump is trying to turn the tables on Alvin Bragg. He goes after guys like Trump who did nothing wrong,” Trump said. “There are hundreds of murderers all over the city, they know who they are and they don’t pick them up. Trump is currently on trial in New York four days a week, severely limiting his ability to campaign or fundraise outside of the state. On Tuesday, Trump used the appearance at the bodega to attack Bragg.
Persons: York City CNN — Donald Trump, Alvin Bragg, Jose Alba, Bragg, Eric Adams –, Trump, Adams, , ” Trump, bodegas, Francisco Marte, , , Alvin, Trump’s, ” Marte, Marte, Joe Biden, “ We’re, “ Alvin Bragg, bodega, Alba, Austin Simon, Simon, Mr, Alice Fontier, ” Adams, ” “, ” Alba, Black, ” Bragg Organizations: York, York City CNN, Harlem bodega, bodega, The, Bodega, Small Business Association, Throngs, Broadway, Trump, Bragg, CNN, NYPD, , Democratic, Biden, Yorker, ” Prosecutors, Republicans, City Locations: York City, Manhattan, Lower Manhattan, New York, York, Trump, Alba, bodega, “ New York, ” New York, New York City, , City of New York, Albany
Depending on their politics, media diets and views on Donald J. Trump, any one could join the group of 12 citizens who will sit in judgment of him. Not until midafternoon Tuesday did Mr. Trump’s lawyers and prosecutors select the first six jurors for the case, which centers on allegations that the former president falsified documents to cover up a sex scandal involving a porn star. Dozens were dismissed after saying they could not be fair, underscoring the towering task of trying a former president in a city where he is deeply unpopular. The lawyers reached the heart of the selection process early in the afternoon, when they began bringing individual people from the jury pool back into the courtroom to question them alone as they debated who should be dismissed. But that process was quickly interrupted when the judge, Juan M. Merchan, scolded Mr. Trump for muttering and gesturing while one of the potential jurors was being interviewed.
Persons: , Donald J, Juan M, Merchan, Mr, Trump Organizations: East, Yorkers, Trump, muttering Locations: Mexico, Harlem, Lower Manhattan, American
“I’ve done a lot of cases that are considered no-win,” Bragg told CNN at the time, in December 2021. Though Bragg’s ambitions are widely considered to be less lofty than some of his predecessors, the Trump trial will likely write both his political future and legacy. Two months into office, Bragg was confronted by two senior attorneys leading the Trump investigation. When Bragg refused to authorize them to seek an indictment they abruptly and noisily resigned, putting additional pressure on the new district attorney. Trump eventually paid $2 million of his own money to a group of charities, and the foundation was dissolved.
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Faith Ringgold, pictured in her studio in New York City in 1999. Anthony Barboza/Getty Images(CNN) — Faith Ringgold, the pioneering artist and author best known for her narrative quilts that interwove art with activism, has died at 93. After earning her bachelor’s degree in fine art and education in 1955, Ringgold began teaching art in public schools while developing her own art. Her early work was influenced by civil and racial unrest, and had patent and profound political and social tones. The painting, arguably the series’ most famous, gorily depicts a group of men, women and children brutally attacking one another.
Persons: Faith Ringgold, Anthony Barboza, Faith, , Dorian Bergen, , Ringgold, Ringgold’s adamancy, Jacquelyn Martin, Madame Willi Posey, ” Ringgold, Leila Macor, Connie’s Organizations: New York Times, ACA Galleries, Ringgold, CNN, Harlem, City College of New, City College, Civil, Museum, Modern, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of Women, Arts, Washington , D.C, New Museum, American, de Young Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Getty Locations: New York City, New Jersey, Harlem, America, African American, Washington ,, Vietnam, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Miami Beach , Florida, AFP
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed with a seven-inch steel letter opener. The woman who stabbed him was named Izola Ware Curry. The many Izola Ware Currys in New York today are far more likely to find themselves in jail, or relegated to street corners and subway stations, than they are to receive comprehensive treatment. This disconnect can set the stage for people with mental illness to be both victims and perpetrators of real violence. Mental illness isn’t a crime, and jail isn’t the answer for those experiencing it.
Persons: Martin Luther King Jr, Izola Ware Curry, King, , Ware Locations: Harlem, New York
And on Thursday, Garland showed that he was getting some things right: Dance Theater, now in its 55th season, has a vintage kind of glow. The company, along with its dancers, seems to be more sure of itself: It’s growing into a sense of style. Honoring Mitchell was a reminder of why Dance Theater, born after the assassination of the Rev. Along with showcasing the transformative power of ballet, Garland writes in the program, Mitchell used Dance Theater as a means for social justice in part by way of its repertoire: George Balanchine ballets were performed alongside works by Black choreographers like Geoffrey Holder. 2,” which braids social dance with classical ballet.
Persons: Robert Garland, “ Arthur Mitchell, , Robert, , — Mitchell, Garland, Mitchell, Martin Luther King Jr, George Balanchine, Black, Geoffrey Holder, curation, , , Marius Petipa Organizations: New York City Center, Dance Theater of Harlem, Locations: New
Cohabs may have fans in NYC, but it might need to tweak its model to expand across the US. Maria Noyen/Business InsiderPart of the reason Cohabs' attempt to enter the US market has been successful so far is because it began operations in NYC, Clark said. Many people moving to the city are younger and unmarried, the prime target audience for a coliving concept like Cohabs, Clark added. It's also a hub for international residents — many of whom move to NYC alone and seek a sense of belonging. But in the Harlem townhouse, equipped with its kitchens, lounges, and private bar, De Vroey said there aren't many excuses to leave.
Persons: Yaëlle De Vroey, Maria Noyen, Clark, It's, De Vroey Organizations: Cohabs Locations: Harlem, NYC
She began the body of work from which “White Shoes” is drawn during graduate studies at the International Center of Photography (ICP) program at Bard College. Nona Faustine/Courtesy Brooklyn MuseumFor centuries, New York City played a significant role in the enslavement of Black people. By 1730, forty-two percent of White households in the city enslaved Black people — the second-largest percentage of household slave ownership, after Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States. A tiara is balanced on her head, representing Western royalty and the dehumanizing ways White people treated enslaved Black women. Faustine's "White Shoes" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum opens with her 2012 shot "Venus of Vlacke Bos," (far left).
Persons: Nona Faustine, Faustine, ” Faustine, , Jacob Morris, Baring, , Vlacke Bos, Mason, Dixon, Isabelle, Saartjie, Sarah ” Baartman, it’s, Catherine Morris, Carla Forbes, Morris, I’m, Faustine —, Truth’s Organizations: CNN, Brooklyn Museum, International Center of Photography, Bard College, New York City, , New York City, Harlem Historical Society, Brooklyn —, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum’s, Brooklyn Borough Hall Locations: New York City, Brooklyn, York, Manhattan, New York, New Amsterdam, , New York, Harlem, Wall, Lower Manhattan, White, Charleston , South Carolina, United States, Dutch, Flatbush, Lefferts House, Prospect Park , Brooklyn, African, Europe, Chinatown, Bronx, Staten Island
How the Renovation of a House Rocked a Famous Church
  + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Ronda Kaysen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Abyssinian Baptist Church is one of the oldest Black churches in America, and certainly one of the most storied. Hundreds of mourners have gathered at the 216-year-old institution in recent years for the memorial services of Cicely Tyson and André Leon Talley. It’s the kind of church where networking mixes with Bible study, and the roll reads like a who’s who list of Black intelligentsia and entrepreneurship. A year later, Ms. Porter and her husband, Tommie Porter, hired the deacon as a contractor to lead the renovations of the $1.44 million house. “We really loved the idea of keeping it in the community,” said Ms. Porter, 44, host of “CrimeFeed” on Investigation Discovery.
Persons: Barack Obama, Cicely Tyson, André Leon Talley, Mara Porter, Porter, Tommie Porter, , Organizations: Abyssinian, Church, Columbia University Locations: America, Harlem
Lorraine Graves, a ballerina known for her willowy frame and majestic grace who starred as a principal dancer for the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem for nearly two decades, died on March 21 in Norfolk, Va. She was 66. Her nephew Jason Graves said the cause of her death, in a hospital, was yet to be determined. For a female dancer, “five foot four, five foot six is considered tall,” Virginia Johnson, a former principal dancer and artistic director for the Dance Theater of Harlem, said in an interview. “Because once you get on pointe, you’re adding another six inches to your height, and so having a partner who’s tall enough to partner you is an issue.”Fortunately, the company had plenty of tall male dancers. That allowed Ms. Graves an opportunity to leverage her unique physicality, which over the course of her career she showed off in performances around the world, including before world leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela.
Persons: Lorraine Graves, Jason Graves, Graves, Virginia Johnson, , Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela Organizations: of Harlem, Dance Theater of Harlem Locations: Norfolk, Va
The Rent Was Too High So They Threw a Party
  + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Minnie Pindar’s name reappears as Minnie Gilmore in a 1952 marriage license to Scotty Eckford, a union organizer of Black hotel employees in New York City. Mr. Eckford was also the uncle of Elizabeth Eckford, the American civil rights activist who made history in 1957 when she enrolled in the all-white Little Rock Central High School and attended class. Her younger son, Cleveland Gilmore, was 2 on that unseasonably warm November night in 1929. As an adult, he never talked about rent parties, or life in Harlem at all. He would tell us little things, like how he would buy watermelon for a nickel, but I never knew about his family.”The elder Mr. Gilmore died of a brain aneurysm in 2004, when Amir was 14.
Persons: Minnie Gilmore’s, Minnie Pindar’s, Minnie Gilmore, Scotty Eckford, Eckford, Elizabeth Eckford, Pindar, Cleveland Gilmore, , , Gilmore, Amir, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Calloway, Fats Waller, Harry Dial, Herman Autrey Organizations: Rock Central High School, Harlem Renaissance, Alhambra, Cotton Club Locations: New York City, Bronx, Harlem, Cleveland
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