ARTHUR WOOD remembers that he wanted to be president.
Not the kind that runs a nation and lives on Capitol Hill, but the kind of visionary president that runs a university of his own design and lives on a different kind of hill – Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Continue reading
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New York just isn’t New York anymore – at least not in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Long strongholds for the American black, these Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods have become fertile ground for immigrant families to take root and pursue the American dream. On each block, new faces are appearing outside to get the morning mail, and the faces of the original American-born blacks, it seems, are steadily disappearing.
The catch? Those new faces are black, too. Continue reading