Harlem Rev News

 
Pitts: Strategy of playing on fears of aging white voters is dying
Houston Chronicle
By Leonard Pitts Jr. So wrote Langston Hughes, the unofficial poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, whose 65 years spanned the lynch mobs of the early 20th century and the race riots of the mid-1960s, intended a defiant reminder to a nation ...

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liherald.com
Grace Methodist pastor to bid farewell
liherald.com
Originally from Maine, Cole attended Duke University and was in the Harlem Domestic Peace Corps for two years doing community development work. He traveled to Sierra Leone in West Africa before coming back to the United States to enter the seminary.

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Keuka College Commencement is Sunday, May 27
Penn Yan Chronicle-Express (blog)
He was ordained an itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and was a pastor in Harlem, NY; Providence, RI; Newark, NJ; and Rochester. Keuka College's Class of 2012 will receive degrees at the College's 104th commencement Sunday, ...


 
Bishop says goodbye to Mother Bethel AME
Philadelphia Inquirer
Norris is the father of a church organist and an AME pastor serving in Harlem. He himself was the sixth of 11 children of an AME preacher. Born in Atlanta, he moved to West Philadelphia and St. Matthew's church in 1944 when his father, the Rev.

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The Hadley Players venture “This Way Forward”
Black Star News
By Deardra Shuler “This Way Forward” is the latest offering of The Hadley Players, a community theatre group nestled within the Harlem School of the Arts, located on 142 nd Street and St Nicholas Avenue, and founded by 97-year-old Gertrude Jeannette, ...


 
Farmworkers fight for fair labor
Legislative Gazette
"We're honored to be here today, but we're frustrated for being here," said the Rev. Richard Witt, executive director of the Rural & Migrant Ministry Inc. "We've been here 15 some years, seeking to stand with our brothers and sisters who are the ...


 
New York Daily News
'Stop-and-frisk' protesters begin court defense of Harlem rally
New York Daily News
It also showed the arrests, which included West and Harlem pastors Rev. Earl Kooperkamp of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Rev. Stephen Phelps of the Riverside Church and Nellie Hester Bailey of Occupy Harlem. Detective Michael Beatty, who recorded the ...

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