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News   Art groups feature Harlem Renaissance at Jazz Museum KC Community News The Writers Place and the American Jazz Museum will present The Harlem Renaissance Revisited, a celebration of the music and literary works of the great cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s at 7 PM on Saturday, July 9, at The American Jazz Museum, ... See all stories on this topic » Apollo Theater Gets New Amateur Night Musical Director DNAinfo By Jeff Mays HARLEM — As a kid visiting the Apollo Theater Onreé Gill didn't want to be a performer singing on stage. Instead, he fantasized about being the person who provided the music, the musical director. "It was the responsibility of being in ... See all stories on this topic » Funeral for Murdered Football Star Isayah... DNAinfo Isayah Muller, of East Harlem, will reportedly be buried on Thursday after viewings on Tuesday and Wednesday. By Tom Liddy MANHATTAN - The East Harlem football star who was brutally murdered hours before his graduation last week is expected to be ... See all stories on this topic » Afrika Owes, prep student who turned to gangs and guns, urged to share story ... New York Daily News Harlem's Afrika Owes could use her story of how she got caught up in a gun-toting, crack-slinging street gang to help others, community activists say. The 17-year-old Ivy League hopeful and former prep school standout started serving a 90-day jail term ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News Man Shot in the Leg on 114th Street DNAinfo (Null Value / flickr) By Tom Liddy MANHATTAN - A man was shot in the leg early Sunday morning in Harlem, officials said. The victim was discovered just before 4 am at St. Nicholas Avenue and 114th Street, police said. The victim was taken to St. Luke's ... See all stories on this topic » Immigrant community divided over Strauss-Kahn accuser AFP Guineans here are scattered around Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx where Strauss-Kahn's accuser had been living until the beginning of the case. Her compatriots now closely follow all the twists and turns of the proceedings. In a Guinean restaurant in ... See all stories on this topic » AFP Girl, 12, Sexually Assaulted in Elevator DNAinfo By Tom Liddy MANHATTAN – A sexual predator was on the loose in Harlem after attacking a 12-year-old girl in an elevator, law enforcement sources said. He allegedly followed her into an elevator and sexually assaulted her. It's not clear how he got into ... See all stories on this topic » BREAKING NEWS: Department of Education to Replace Teachers with Drones in ... OpEdNews Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will announce the landmark changes in a televised speech at 4:15 PM EST from the Harlem Children's Zone charter school in New York City. The Department of Education is calling the proposed changes a "signature ... See all stories on this topic » Web   Harlem barbershops, salons double as health clinics - Health ... Turning his head from side to side as he checks his reflection in the barbershop mirror, Terrell Mack seems pretty pleased with his haircut -- a tight, ... www.msnbc.msn.com/.../harlem-barbershops-salons-double-h...