- Hanne Harlem
Hanne Harlem (1964-) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was personal secretary to Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs in 1990, personal secretary to the Minister of Children and Family Affairs 1991 and Minister of Justice 2000-2001 in the first cabinet Stoltenberg. She is the sister of former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. - Gudmund Harlem
Gudmund Harlem (1917-1988) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was Minister of Social Affairs 1955-1961 and Minister of Defense 1961-1963 and 1963-1965. He was also a physician, and the father of former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. - Jim Jones
Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born on July 15, 1976 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States), is a Aruban/Puerto Rican and African American rapper He is best know by his stage name, Jim Jones. Jones is an original member of The Diplomats, also known as Dipset, and also for the hit single We Fly High, and its accompanying catchphrase, "Ballin!". He is Co-CEO of Diplomat Records and is director of A&R for Warner Music Group. - Big L
Lamont Coleman (May 30 1974-February 15 1999), better known as Big L, was an American rapper. Big L was born, raised, lived, and was fatally shot in the same New York City neighborhood, Harlem, about which he frequently rhymed. He is mostly remembered for his freestyling, storytelling, punchlines, his critically acclaimed debut album "Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous", and his murder at the age of twenty-four. - Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas was a heroin dealer in Harlem in the early 1970s. He claims to have grossed $1 million a day selling drugs on 116th Street. Federal judge Sterling Johnson, who was special narcotics prosecutor in New York at the time of Lucas's crimes, called Lucas's operation "one of the most outrageous international dope-smuggling gangs ever. - Fats Waller
Fats Waller (born Thomas Wright Waller on May 21, 1904, died December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. A skilled pianist and one of the most popular performers of his era, Waller was also a prolific songwriter, with many songs he wrote or co-wrote still known to modern audiences, such as "Honeysuckle Rose", "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Squeeze Me". - Juelz Santana
LaRon Louis James (born on February 18 1983) is an American rapper and producer. He is better know by his stage name, Juelz Santana. He came to fame following his appearances on Cam'ron's 2002 singles, "Oh Boy", and "Hey Ma". - Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow (born Curtis Walker, 9 August 1959, Harlem, New York) is one of the first commercially successful rappers and the first to sign with a major label. "The Breaks", a single from his 1980 debut album, is an early hip hop classic. - David Paterson
David A. Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Lieutenant Governor of New York. He is the first African American to hold this position. He was selected as running mate by New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1977 and later his law degree from Hofstra Law School. - Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903-January 9, 1946) was an African-American Romantic poet and an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance. - Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Rev Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (November 29 1908 - April 4 1972), American politician, was the first African American to become a powerful figure in the United States Congress. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Harlem in 1945, and became chair of the Education and Labor Committee in 1961. His tenure as committee chairman saw the passage of important social legislation. His career was ended by a corruption scandal. - Charles B. Rangel
Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, 1930) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1971, representing the Fifteenth Congressional District of New York (map) Rangel's district, the smallest in the country in geographic size, encompasses Upper Manhattan and includes such neighborhoods as Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, and part of the Upper West Side, … - Bill Perkins
Bill Perkins, is a New York State Senator for the 30th district. He is a Democrat and was first elected to the New York State Senate in November 2006. The district is part of New York County and encompasses Harlem, the Upper West Side and Washington Heights. - Vast Aire
Vast Aire (born Theodore Arrington on February 5, 1978) is a rapper from New York City. He is one half of the New York rap duo Cannibal Ox, which consists of himself and fellow rapper Vordul Mega. He is also a member of the rap group Atoms Family. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, then lived in Jamaica, Queens before moving to Harlem, where he became acquainted with the underground rap scene, performing in many clubs while still a teenager. - Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music. One of the greatest composers of 20th century popular music, with over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. His 1938 song "Over the Rainbow” was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America [1<nowiki>;</nowiki>;]. - Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Myers August 12, 1937, Martinsburg, West Virginia, raised in Harlem) is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written dozens of books, including novels and non-fiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors four times. One of these books, "Fallen Angels", has made the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged books, … - Mr. Untouchable
Mr. Untouchable is an English language documentary film for HDNet Films, directed by Marc Levin and produced by Mary-Jane Robinson. The film is about the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a young black kid from the streets of Harlem who went from being a teen-age heroin junkie to the most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history. With first-hand testimony from Nicky Barnes himself, Mr. - George Jackson
George Jackson is film director and producer. He has worked with Doug McHenry as co-producer on such projects as "Jason's Lyric" and "New Jack City", and as co-director on the second installment of the "House Party" series. Jackson was born and raised in Harlem, New York. After graduating from an Ivy League school, he spent his earliest days in the film industry living in his car. He died of a stroke in 2000 and left behind a wife and a daughter. - Max B
Charles Wingate (born in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States on May 27, 1979) is a member of The Diplomats. He is better known by his stage name, Max B. - A. Philip Randolph
Asa Philip Randolph (April 15 1889 - May 16 1979) was a prominent twentieth century African-American civil rights leader and founder of the first black labor union in the U.S. - Patti Austin
Patti Austin (born August 10 1948, in Harlem, New York), to Edna and Gordon Austin, is an R&B and jazz music singer. - Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz stride pianist, composer, and arranger. She was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a very young child she taught herself to play the piano (her first public performance was at the age of six). She became a professional musician in her teens. In 1930, she joined Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, of which her first husband, … - 40 Cal.
Calvin Alan Byrd (born August 31, 1981) in Harlem, New York City, New York is a rapper better know by his stage name, 40 Cal. He is known for his battle and freestyle abilities and gained attention from the battle show Fight Klub. Byrd has named himself "Mr. Rewind That" as a moniker "reflecting his abilities to spit metaphors that have hip-hop heads rewinding to catch the reference." After appearing on several Diplomat albums and mixtapes, … - Audre Lorde
Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - November 17, 1992) was a writer, poet and activist. - Jimmie Lunceford
James Melvin "Jimmie" Lunceford (June 6, 1902-July 12, 1947) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader of the swing era. Lunceford was born in Fulton, Mississippi, but attended school in Denver and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Fisk University. In 1927, while teaching high school in Memphis, Tennessee, he organized a student band, the Chickasaw Syncopators, whose name was changed to the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra when it began touring. - Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold (born October 8 1930) is an African-American artist and author. Ringgold was raised in Harlem and educated at the City College of New York, where she studied with Robert Gwathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. She was greatly influenced by the fabric she worked with at home with her mother who was a seamstress and has used fabric in many of her artworks. - Geoffrey Canada
Geoffrey Canada is an African-American social activist. He is the author of "Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America". Since 1990, Canada has been president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem, New York. - Chano Pozo
Chano Pozo (January 7, 1915 - December 2, 1948) was a percussionist with a musical background from Cuban religious cults. Born in Havana, he played a major role in the founding of Latin jazz, and was a renowned session player. Once Pozo became famous he also became renowned by his sense of fashion: his all-white top hat and tuxedo look predated that of Flavor Flav by at least 45 years. - Jae Millz
Jarvis Mills (born on April 30, 1983) is a African American rapper from Harlem, Manhattan, New York. He is better know by his stage name, Jae Millz - Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson (born December 19 1933) is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American actress. Tyson's devout Christian parents came from the island of Nevis of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies, but Cicely was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. - Benny Golson
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. While in high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, and Red Rodney. After graduating from Howard University Golson joined Bull Moose Jackson's rhythm and blues band; Tadd Dameron, … - Miss Info
Minya Oh, known by the stage name Miss Info, is a radio presenter. Formerly a writer and reporter for MTV News, Miss Info is currently an on-air radio personality at the New York hip hop and R&B station Hot 97. She is also a journalist who has worked for the notable hip hop industry publication "The Source". Oh was a Music Lifestyles editor at "Vibe" Magazine (where she presently pens the monthly advice column "Ask Miss Info"), … - Frankie Manning
Frankie Manning or Frankie "Musclehead" Manning, born Frank Manning in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 26, 1914, is an American dancer, instructor and choreographer. Manning is considered to be one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop. He frequented Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in the 1930s, eventually becoming a dancer in the elite and prestigious "Kat's Korner", … - Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (August 6, 1902 - October 24, 1935) was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and '30s. Born Arthur Flegenheimer into a Jewish German family in the Bronx, he made his fortune in organized crime-related activities such as bootlegging illegal alcohol and the numbers racket in Harlem. He is most famous today for the rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologue he gave police in a hospital as he lay dying of a gunshot wound. - Shemekia Copeland
Shemekia Copeland (b Harlem, New York City, 10 April 1979) is an American blues singer. The daughter of blues guitarist and singer Johnny Copeland, she began to pursue a singing career in earnest at age 16, when her father's health began to decline; he took Shemekia on tour as his opening act, which helped establish her name on the blues circuit. Copeland graduated in 1997 from Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey. - Freddie Jackson
Freddie Jackson (born October 2, 1956, in Harlem, New York) is an American soul singer. He was an important figure in R&B during the 1980s and early 1990s. Among his well-known hits are "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Time's Sake)," "Jam Tonight," "Do Me Again," and "You are My Lady." - Mekhi Phifer
In 1995 an unknown actor with only two minor roles under his belt answered an open audition call for Spike Lee 's latest movie Clockers and won the role. The actor was Mekhi Phifer . He received critical acclaim for his role as Strike, a drug dealer who gets involved with a murder cover-up. Mekhi Phifer was born and raised in Harlem by his mother Rhoda, a single mother and a school teacher. After graduation from high school in 1994, he planned on going to college. - Bloodshed
Derek Michael "Bloodshed" Armstead was an African American rapper, usually affiliated with fellow Harlemites Big L, Ma$e and Cam'Ron (who was Bloodshed's cousin). He was born on July 31, 1975 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. For a short while he was in the rap group Children of the Corn until he died in a car accident on March 2, 1997 in Harlem. His voice was similar to his cousin Cam'Ron's, but was more rough and raspy. - Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Hart (May 2, 1895 - November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. His most memorable lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "The Lady is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", and "My Funny Valentine". Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to Rodgers, … - June Jordan
June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants.
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