Photo: Arlenechang via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Similar to Bumpy Johnson, St. Clair didn’t move to Harlem until 1912. When she first moved there, she fell in love with a local criminal by the name of Duke. After he was murdered by a rival gang, she started to sell drugs with help of […]
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Photo: Arlenechang via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Similar to Bumpy Johnson, St. Clair didn’t move to Harlem until 1912. When she first moved there, she fell in love with a local criminal by the name of Duke. After he was murdered by a rival gang, she started to sell drugs with help of […]
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Screenshot: Harlem World Bumpy died in 1968, but his wife, Mayme Hatcher, whom he married in October 1998, lived until May 2009. A year before her death, she wrote a book titled Harlen Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, which inspired the story for Godfather of Harlem.
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: PeopleImages / Getty A Harlem-based high school squash team has cemented itself in the sports history books. A collective of student-athletes from Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change will become the first all-Black squad to compete in the national championships, CBS News reported. Historically, the nearly 200-year-old sport has […]
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Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) The music service partners with Pandora for several new channels including The Whitney Channel, Notorious Radio, which celebrates Biggie, Black Music Forever, highlighting current hits and new artists, and The Apollo Theater Channel, which offers the history of Black music from Jazz, to R&B, to Hip-Hop.
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