Bedford Stuyvesant Early

Jay-Z: Pushing against the crowds; Swimming against the current ; Jay-Z keeps his edge and his executive prowess as he pushes 40
International Herald Tribune; 9/12/2009; 1944 words; ...New Jersey, a gig he had taken just eight days earlier when the original headliner, the Beastie Boys, had...real name, who grew up in the tough Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, in Brooklyn, New York, and dealt drugs before...

Steppin' out; Song-and-dance man Ben Vereen will get personal in shows starting tonight at the Dakota.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 8/30/2009; 748 words; ...Last Jam" on Broadway. Vereen grew up in the rough Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, and attended the High...with blanks in his own story. He found out in his early 20s that he was adopted but could not locate his biological...

A product of the Brooklyn projects during the 1980s crack era, Mos Def is a hip-hop lifer, despite his frequent forays into Hollywood. And he's unafraid to call out his peers: "Extended exposure to commercial rap has got to have some sort of negative psychological impact".(The SPIN Interview)
SPIN Magazine; 8/1/2009; 3180 words; ...Dynasty shit." You grew up in a housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Roosevelt Houses. How much of an impact did...did you question why you were living there? Very early, I was like, we're here because we don't have...

THE ELM CITY PHENOM
New Haven Register; 7/26/2009; 2242 words; ...at the Capitoline Grounds, a 5,000-seat baseball park in the heart of Brooklyn's Bedford- Stuyvesant neighborhood. Many of baseball's earliest historical events had taken place there since its construction in 1864. In June of 1870...

Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is dead at 78; Frank McCourt, 'Angela's Ashes' author
International Herald Tribune; 7/21/2009; 1050 words; ...whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare...on Classon Avenue on the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant, part of the New York City borough...McCourt's six siblings died in early childhood. The family's circumstances...