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Harlem Boys Choir saved from eviction |
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Harlem Boys Choir saved from evictionChoir stays as after-school activity but must open own officeNEW
YORK (CNN) -- New York's public school system has reached a deal with
the historic Boys Choir of Harlem to save the beleaguered institution
from eviction while it grapples with a $5 million cash shortfall. The
choir, which has performed before large audiences around the world,
recently was told to leave the Harlem public school it has called home
for the last 12 years for failing to address financial and managerial
problems. The deal will allow it to continue as an after-school activity. The
problems arose after choir director Walter Turnbull failed to fire an
employee who sexually abused a student and did not report the abuse to
authorities. The choir, which has an estimated $5 million deficit
and has had trouble raising funds because of the scandal, had been told
to leave the school by January 31. The New York Department of Education
had demanded the choir install new leadership, but Turnbull has
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Richard Pryor, Who Turned Humor Of Streets Into Social Satire, Is Dead |
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LOS ANGELES--Richard Pryor, the iconoclastic standup comedian who
transcended barriers of race and brought a biting, irreverent humor
into America’s living rooms, movie houses, clubs and concert halls,
died Saturday.
He was 65.
Mr.
Pryor, who had been ill with multiple sclerosis, suffered a heart
attack and died at a hospital in Los Angeles, his wife, Jennifer L.
Pryor, told CNN.
His health had been in decline for many years.
Episodes
of self-destructive, chaotic and violent behavior, often triggered by
drug use, repeatedly threatened his career and jeopardized his life.
“Couldn’t escape the darkness,” he acknowledged, but he was able to put his demons at the service of his art.
Mr.
Pryor’s brilliant comic imagination and creative use of the blunt
cadences of street language were revelations to most Americans.
He
did not simply tell stories; he brought them to vivid life, revealing
the entire range of Black America’s humor, from its folksy rural
origins to its raunchier urban expressions.
At
the height of his career, in the late 1970’s, Mr. Pryor prowled the
stage like a restless cat, dispensing what critics regarded as the most
poignant and penetrating comedic view of African-American life ever
afforded the American public.
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Politics or Not, Bronx Warmly Receives Venezuelan Heating Oil |
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Politics or Not, Bronx Warmly Receives Venezuelan Heating Oil
By Michelle Garcia
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 8, 2005; A08
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YORK -- A green Citgo tanker truck chugged up a hill with a grim view
of tenement buildings, elevated subways and treeless sidewalks to
deliver Venezuelan heating oil, a "humanitarian" gift from Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez. Moments before the orange-gloved worker
snaked the hose to a Bronx tenement, Eartha Ferguson, a manager and
resident of a low-income building, said: "I call it a gift of survival.
It comes at a good time, a very needed time." Chavez's gift,
which arrived on Tuesday and is being distributed this week, may be
nothing more than a chance to tweak the nose of the Bush
administration, which has long opposed the South American leader. But
few residents in the South Bronx, where 41 percent live on incomes
below the federal poverty line, are inclined to worry about
international politics. |
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