As Angela gets older and attends high school in New York City she notices many differences between every day life in the south compared to that of the north. ... While attending Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York Davis joined a communist youth group. ...
The Harlem Renaissance centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, and the movement had significant impacts throughout the United States. ... Van Vechten recommended Langston Hughes's work to Knopf that which is a New York publishing house, Knopf Published Hughes' s first volume of poems, the Weary Blues, in 1920, and many other Hughes's works later. ...
Du Bois describes the relationship between a black man, Jim, and a white woman, Julia, after a comet hits New York City and kills everyone except them. ... In The Comet, Du Bois expends a lot of thought and attention on portraying the lifeless city after the disaster to emphasize the embedment of racism in society. ... Du Bois uses the careful description of this dire and silent post-apocalyptic city to underlie the characters' unvoiced fear and uncertainty about the future. ...
"In most cities, police are breaking down doors without search warrants, stopping and searching anyone they choose on the sidewalk or street, harassing and arresting young people for wearing "gang colors" or for "drug loitering," threatening and abusing anyone who questions them, and refusing to supply their badge numbers upon request" (Dority, 178). ... The officers responsible for Diallo's death were part of New York Police Department's "elite" Street Crime Unit. ...
In early 1966, an even more important conference was held, sponsored by the Consultative Council on the South Africa, which was based in New York and closely closely tied to the American Committee headed by George Houser. ...
