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Entries from September 1, 2009 - September 30, 2009
Harlem's African American Day Parade 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:17PM On Sunday September 20th, sunny weather, tasty food and many marching bands met up in Harlem for the 40th annual African American Day parade. The parade is billed as the largest black parade in America and starts on 111th Street, marching up Adam Clayton Powell to 142nd Street. Participants travel from 12 different states to be a part of this event.
In this report, allthingsharlem.com producer and cameraman Paolo Walker catches up with NY NAACP President Hazel Dukes who enjoyed the parade on Adam Clayton Powell. New York Mayoral Candidates Bill Thompson and Frances Villar were also in attendance. Poet and publisher Jade D Banks also spoke with our crew. Its like a black folks explosion, she said. Congressman Charles Rangel, one of seven Grand Marshals rides along the parade route while men dressed in black waive red, green and black flags chanting to the crowd, Love yourself.
Dancing & Celebrating - Harlem's African American Day Parade 2009
Harlem Speaks on Harvard Professor arrest and Racial Profiling - PART 1 of 2
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 10:13PM Dante Higgins gets Harlem's voice on the recent arrest ofAfrican American Harvard Henry Louis Gates and racial profiling in NY. Councilman Robert Jackson, NY State Civil Rights Bureau Chief Alfonso David and Harlem residents tell allthingsharlem.com what they think about these situations. Cordie Piper explains how he's been racially profiled in NYC. Jackson and David advise you to report police misconduct.
NYC Councilman Robert Jackson says oversight committee has been a rubberstamp for Bloomberg
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 10:10PM NYC Council Member and chair of the Councils Education Committee tells Dante Higgins of allthingsharlem.com that he hopes the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) designed to oversee mayoral control doesnt continue to be a rubber stamp for the mayor. Jackson also outlines amendments that were added to the bill before the vote in August of 2009.
Racist? Watermelon Soda Sold In Target
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 9:47PM
One of our producers visited this Target on 225th St., in New York City and made an interesting discovery. In the beverage aisle he found this soda with a black girl eating watermelon on a can. It reminded us of the caricatures of America's racist past.
We took to Target's parking lot and in front of their store to poll customers. We showed them historic Picaninny images then revealed this product and how it can be found on shelves right now at their local Target.
Follow up
Allthingsharlem
Target Pulls Soda With Racial Image
By Jones, Ayana
Tribune Staff Writer
The retailer recently started carrying the product, produced for decades
Target has come under fire for selling a watermelon soda that has controversial images.
Manufactured by Miami, Fla.-based Cawy Bottling Co., the soda can depicts an image of Black girl with ponytails eating watermelon on one side and an image of a white boy on the other.
Controversy swirled after Paolo Walker, a video producer from Still Here Harlem Productions Inc., saw the product on the shelves of a Target store located at 225th Street in Harlem, N.Y.
The producer filmed the soda on store shelves and surveyed store customers - many of whom were offended by the imagery because it reminded them of past racist depictions of Black children.
An online video blast of their findings led to the Cawy watermelon soda being pulled from Target locations.
According to Target spokesperson Jana O'Leary, the retailer pulled the product off stores shelves earlier this month. This summer, Target began carrying the item in 35 of its 1,700 locations.
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