When rap music began, it was sang in the streets of New York. ... To add to the new phenomenon, a group called "The Beastie Boys" which consisted of three Jewish kids from New York had sprung onto the scene with party anthems. ... They helped represent some of New York's finest rappers and introduced such acts as LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, and Davy D. ... Seeing as most rappers come from ghettoized urban centers, it seemed to be a dream to be picked up by some big label. ... Being brought out of the ghetto, and given ludicrous amounts of money to sing was what happened. ...

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The music originated in the South Bronx of New York in the 1970"s. ... People would trade and copy the mix-tapes and would play the music outside on the battery powered cassette players called "Ghetto Blasters." ... Run DMC and Jam Master Jay, were brought up in Hollis, Queens in New York, a middle class neighborhood. ... This drug explosion ruled most of the inner city ghettos. ... The New York Rappers knew they were the creators and didn't like the East Coast Rappers fame. ...

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I remember him saying how much his life has changed for the better since he moved to New York. ... Although New York wasn't perfect for him it was better then the South. ... The black migration to New York City and other Northern cities was characterized by "push" and "pull" factors. ... By the mid to late 1920's, the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing in New York City. ... Harlem became a fad for middle class, whit, New York. ...

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Rap music originated in mid-1970 in south Bronx section of New York City. ... Rapper and DJs disseminated their work by copying it on tape- dubbing equipment and playing it on powerful, portable "ghetto blasters." ... Although graffiti as a social movement first came out in New York during the late 1960s, it was not until almost a decade later that it began to develop elaborate styles and widespread attention. ... Hip hop thrived in the black and Puerto Rican communities in New York, but is now just recently beginning to enjoy wide spread exposure. ...

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In 1944, the ghetto of Sighet was formed. In a stroke of what could perhaps be considered luck, the ghetto was established on the Wiesels' street, enabling them to remain in their own home. (Wiesel, 9) The ghetto life was eventually adjusted to and just as a sort of normality settled in, the family was uprooted to Auschwitz. ... They were fearful at first, but the man turned out to be kind and spoke the first human words that the exhausted men had heard since their explosion from the ghetto. ... Several years later, in 1954, Wiesel traveled to New York City. ...

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These rappers are simply stating what went on in their everyday lives as they grew up in the ghetto of urban cities. ... Many of the successful rap artists that are now millionaires such as Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent and many others were raised in poverty stricken homes in the inner cities of New York. ... Look at them now, rich and successful because they rose above all the negativity in the ghettos of the city. ...

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She only told Malcolm two things when he arrived: not to hang out in the ghetto and to lock the door when he left. ... Of course Malcolm didn"t listen; he was often in the ghetto. There was a pool hall in the ghetto that Malcolm frequented. ... Soon after that, Red started selling drugs and moved to Harlem, New York. ...

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Countee Cullen was born Countee Leroy Porter on May 30,1903 in Louisville Kentucky and later raised by his grandmother in New York City. ... The Reverend lived in Harlem, New York where he was the minister of Salem M.L. ... (Cayne 210) When Cullen finally graduated from New York University in1925 his first collections of poems, COLOR, was published. ... ("Countee Cullen" 1) When he finally returned to New York City he began teaching in the public school system. ... It began like all other movements in this time period because of financial and educational problems.During this postwar ease ma...

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The first New York white rock star was Dion. ... It was held on farm property in Bethel New York on August 15-17th 1969. ... For two days straight Woodstock made front headlines in the New York Times. ... They closed the New York State Thruway. There was eight lanes of gridlock all the way from New York to the festival. ...

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Like many other Jamaican teenagers, Bob found music a relief from the realities of ghetto life. ... Higgs held free music clinics at his home in the ghetto, only one street away from Bob's home. ... "Bob noticed that increasing numbers of ghetto youths were growing their hair, allowing it to twine into long happy tresses" (White 225). During a concert in New York in 1980, Bob nearly blacked out. ... Bob was flown from Miami to New York's Memorial Sloan Ketting Cancer Center, where he was fully diagnosed as having brain, lung, and stomach cancer. ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. King a...

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It was at this time that Baldwin published his first essay, "The Harlem Ghetto". ... The Harlem Ghetto's echo, The Fire Next Time (1963) was another grueling and spiteful account of racism in the United States. ... He also began to write of his newfound observations of New York intellectuals and the racial and sexual tension among them in, Another Country (1962). ...

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In Boston, Malcolm was more attracted to the street life in the Ghetto surroundings rather than his sister's upper class society in Roxbury, a city in Boston. ... After awhile he leaves and begins to work on the railroad, this eventually led to his first trip in New York City. He eventually lives in Harlem, New York. ... He is appointed minister by Muhammad for the New York City Temple" ("Malcolm X....

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The most popular destinations were Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Charleston. ... That is why even today places like Boston and New York have a massive Irish-American population. At the time New York had more Irish inhabitants than Dublin which is the capital of Ireland. ... Because most of them where crammed into small "Irish ghettos" and the living conditions were not great. ... In New York in 1859 up to 55 percent of all people who were arrested were of Irish decent. ...

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Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in Harlem, New York. ... One of his favorite pastimes whether abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. ... His real meanings are never that apparent and, in order to understand his work fully, one must have deep insight into ghetto life and psychology and an emotional tie. (www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm) Brooks Atkinson, a writer for the New York Times, wrote "Langston Hughes has succeeded in giving us in Not Without Laughter an intimate picture o...

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There was a survey done in New York's Attica Prison, to find out how many of the black inmates were born to teenage mothers, and 90% of them said that they were. ... Nearly 40 percent of the 15-19 year olds in this country are poor or low income , and many grow up in economic, social, and ethnic ghettos. ...

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Many poor Jamaicans saw Rastafarianism and The Wailers" as a spiritual alternative to the frequent violence and ghetto life. ... "The band's packed touring schedule in 1978 included a sold-out show at New York City's Madison Square Garden, which was recorded and released as the highly acclaimed live album "Babylon By Buss". ... In 1980, Marley collapsed while jogging in New York's Central Park; by that time, the cancer had spread throughout his lungs and brain. ...

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Good Times appeared on 1974 (Ingram "Good Times") Florida and James Evans were lower middle-class blacks, with their three children in a high-rise ghetto on the south side of Chicago. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... The Huxtable residence, in New York City, where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. ...

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Many parents like mine, moved to the northeast side of the capital city to mask their children away from the apparent use of drugs and alcohol as well as the violent lifestyles of those who lived in the rural cities and ghettos that surround our downtown area. ... "Just about everyone I know from my hometown in New York has either tried the drug or are stoners. ...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. ... And to top off the hippie era, one of the largest concerts in the world took place in Woodstock, New York. ...

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Lola Ridge was a poet and champion of the working class. Born by Rose Emily and Joseph Henry on December 12, 1873, in Dublin, Ireland. When Lola was twenty-one she married Peter Webster. Peter was a gold mine manager. Lola's marriage failed so she moved to Sydney, New South Wales. She enrolled in Tr...

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Third, the Hull House community believed that poverty and the lack of opportunity bred the problems of the ghetto. ... Jane promoted the idea that if afforded a decent education, adequate living conditions, and reliable income, any person could overcome the obstacles of the ghetto, and furthermore if allowed to develop his skills, that person could not only make a better life for himself but contribute to the community as a whole. ...

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I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto The sound of a single gunshot echoes from a black BMW, followed by screams, skidding tires and sirens. ... It is unfortunate however; that this article comes at the very contradictory time following the event that Jam Master Jay of Run DMC, a group notorious for bringing Hip Hop out of the shiny jumpsuit look and into a casual, streetwise one was shot dead in a New York recording studio. ...

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Benoit, a Psychologist out of New York states, "Prenatal nutrition, education, peer pressure, parental role models, television, diet, and stress are all factors in the environment and nurturing that we receive as a child." When it comes to a person from the "ghetto" saying that they could handle just about any situation because they grew up in the "hood" and that is why they could handle it. ...

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Areas with little or no homicide census tracts are East Capitol Street & Minnesota Ave, Rhode Island Ave, & New York Ave, down to Benning Rd, just to name a couple. Homicide usually occurs in low-income neighbors to be exact those area would include Southeast where you have a lot of public housing, or as some people call them ghettos. ...

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