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#OTD (July 4) in #OrganizedCrime #History: Gang war erupts in #NYC, #anarchist bomb destroys #Harlem building, #Coll escapes briefly, weapons of #Yale murder are recovered, #Luciano & #Lucchese & Biondo are questioned in #Cleveland, gangster is found dead near #EndicottNY, Attardi begins #Leavenworth sentence.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

Image of Salvatore "Charlie Luciano" Lucania. Text reads: On this date, July 4...
in 1857, scores of casualties result from a daylong gang war between the Roche Guards (Dead Rabbits) and the Bowery Boys in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
in 1895, Waterbury CT Mafia leader Antonio Spadola is believed responsible for the shooting of Nicolo Errico.
in 1899, future mobster Frank Abbatemarco is born in Brooklyn.
in 1902, Meyer Lansky is born in Grodno (then in Russia), according to U.S. authorities.
in 1903, the Paradise Social Club gang of New York's Five Points battles with police at Mulberry Bend.
in 1914, a bomb-making accident results in an explosion that destroys the upper floors of a Lexington Avenue apartment building, kills several anarchist-terrorists and injures several residents.
in 1926, Vincent Coll escapes from incarceration at New York's Randall's Island but is captured in the Bronx later that day.
in 1928, New York police announce they have recovered a shotgun, an automatic pistol and a fully loaded Thompson submachine gun in the auto abandoned by Frankie Yale's killers.
in 1931, Salvatore 'Charlie Luciano' Lucania, Joseph Biondo and Tommy Lucchese are arrested as suspicious persons at the Stribling-Schmeling boxing match in Cleveland.
in 1934, racketeer 'Colorado Joe' Morreale is found murdered near Endicott NY.
in 1938, Alphonso Attardi enters Leavenworth KS federal prison to serve a narcotics sentence.

#OTD (July 4) in 1914, A bomb-making accident destroys a #Harlem apartment building, kills members of the #anarchist #terrorist group preparing the bomb and injures several residents.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/07/anarchist-bomb-destroys-nyc-building.html

#CrimeHistory #Histodons #NYC

All I’ve done today is eat southern cooking. #Harlem

Shrimp and grits and cornbread at Red Rooster.

#OTD (July 1) in #OrganizedCrime #History: #Monk is sentenced, #Russomano of #Harlem is pardoned, #Yale is killed in #Brooklyn, #Nucky tax conviction is upheld, car-bomb gets Billy Naples in #YoungstownOH, #Boston boss pleads guilty to bribery, Limone doesn't fight gambling & loansharking charges.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

Image of Frank Yale. Text reads: On this date, July 1...
in 1872, the Secret Service arrests a group of Sicilian coin-counterfeiters in New Orleans.
in 1893, John C. Montana, future Mafia leader in Buffalo, is born in Montedoro, Sicily.
in 1909, Congress makes its first appropriation for the new Bureau of Investigation (BOI) within the Justice Department.
in 1915, Monk Eastman pleads guilty to robbing an Albany home and is sentenced to nearly three years in Dannemora prison.
in 1922, imprisoned East Harlem gangster John Russomano receives a pardon from Governor Miller.
in 1928, Frank Yale is killed in his car while driving in Brooklyn. Murder weapons are traced to Capone men.
in 1930, Giuseppe Micello, friend of the late Frankie Yale and Giuseppe Piraino, is shot to death on East 18th Street in Brooklyn.
in 1942, a U.S. appeals court upholds the income tax evasion conviction of New Jersey racketeer Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson.
in 1962, Youngstown OH racketeer William 'Billy' Naples is killed in a car bombing.
in 1963, information from Nicola Gentile's autobiographical manuscript is shared with FBI field offices through a report written by Special Agent James P. Flynn.
in 2009, Carmen DiNunzio of Boston pleads guilty to bribery charges related to the Big Dig highway construction project.
in 2010, New England mafioso Peter Limone pleads no contest to a dozen charges related to gambling and loansharking.

Celebrating Juneteenth

Photography by Carl Van Vechten in 1950s Harlem:

1) actor James Earl Jones
2) writer James Baldwin
3) Billie Holiday
4) writer WEB DuBois

#carlvanvechten #writer #writers #photographer #zoranealehurston #joycebryant #actor #africanamericanhistory #blackhistory #jamesearljones #singer #jamesbaldwin #author #billieholiday #webdubois #harlem #1950s #1950sharlem #harlemrenaissance #photography #50sstyle #style #juneteenth

Passing

Just read this 1929 novel by American author Nella Larsen. The story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends + the discovery that one is 'passing' in a mixed race marriage.

Born in Chicago, Larsen was part of the Harlem Renaissance of the 20s + 30s. She wrote 2 novels during this time.

Photographs are by Carl Van Vechten

A film adaption of the novel was made in 2021 by Rebecca Hall.

#passing #nellalarsen #harlem #harlemrenaissance #novel #readinglist #book #books #mybookshelf #reading #livres #buch #bücher #carlvanvechten

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a #ChristmasSong released in 1971 as a single by the #PlasticOnoBand with the #Harlem Community Choir. It was the seventh single released by #JohnLennon outside his work with #theBeatles. The song reached number four in the United Kingdom, where its release was delayed until November 1972, and has occasionally re-emerged on the #UKSinglesChart, most notably following #LennonsMurder in December 1980, when it peaked at number two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN4Uu0OlmTg

Today's poem:

Theme for English B
- by Langston Hughes

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/785136047494496256/theme-for-english-b?source=share

#LangstonHughes #black #AfricanAmerican #poetry #gay #racism #distance #connection #harlem

‘Paradise’ & ‘Harlem’ Lead 2025 AAFCA TV Honors
#News #AAFCA #AAFCATVHonors #Forever #Harlem #Paradise

https://deadline.com/2025/05/aafca-tv-honors-2025-winners-list-1236413337/

#RTfromTwitter photoarchive.online (@PhotoArchiveOn@twitter.com):
Gerald Cyrus, Couple Dancing at Hollbaughs House, Harlem, 1996

May 28, 2025 ⦾ https://xcancel.com/PhotoArchiveOn/status/1927615371059802445 ⦾ https://x.com/PhotoArchiveOn/status/1927615371059802445 #GeraldCyrus #blackandwhitephotography #contemporaryphotography #dance #couples #Harlem #BLT #PhotoArchiveOn #1990s

Чёрно-белый снимок: мейл-фимейловская афроамериканская пара танцует в неопределённом пространстве. На мейле кожаные куртка и кепка, он показан со спины. На даме яркий пиджак в крупную клетку, ещё видны небольшие серьги и причёска каре. Голова танцующей наклонена влево, взгляд в сторону и вниз, минорный, погружённый в раздумья. // Black and white photograph: a male-female Afro-American couple dancing in an undefined space. The male is wearing a leather jacket and cap, he is shown from the back. The lady is wearing a bright jacket in a large check, small earrings and a bob hairstyle are also visible. The lady's head is tilted to the left, her gaze is to the side and down, minor, immersed in thought. // 1996 © Gerald Cyrus

Former US Congressman Charles Rangle, who represented #Harlem, NYC for many years, and was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, has died at age 94. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/26/charles-rangel-dies-00369767

Ernest Cole (1940-1990)

More photographs from the South African Photographer's posthumously published book The True America (2024) - New York City photos taken in the late 60s + early 70s but only discovered in a Swedish bank vault in 2018

In 2024 an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

Ernest Cole (1940-1990)

More photographs from the South African Photographer's posthumously published book The True America (2024) - New York City photos taken in the late 60s + early 70s but only discovered in a Swedish bank vault in 2018

In 2024 an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

Ernest Cole (1940-1990)

More photographs from the South African Photographer's posthumously published book The True America (2024) - New York City photos taken in the late 60s + early 70s but only discovered in a Swedish bank vault in 2018

In 2024 an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

The True America

South African Photographer Ernest Cole (1940-1990) published one book during his lifetime - House Of Bondage (1967) - a collection exposing life under Apartheid. After fleeing South Africa in 1966, he became a "banned person" and settled in New York, but his final years were marked by periods of homelessness and poverty

In 2018 a collection of 60,000 negatives was found at a bank vault in Stockholm, where Cole had lived briefly. Subsequently the book The True America was published in 2024 and an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

The True America

South African Photographer Ernest Cole (1940-1990) published one book during his lifetime - House Of Bondage (1967) - a collection exposing life under Apartheid. After fleeing South Africa in 1966, he became a "banned person" and settled in New York, but his final years were marked by periods of homelessness and poverty.

In 2018 a collection of 60,000 negatives was found at a bank vault in Stockholm, where Cole had lived briefly. Subsequently the book The True America was published in 2024 and an excellent documentary directed by Raoul Peck was also released - Ernest Cole: Lost & Found

#ernestcole #thetrueamerica #photographer #photography #newyork #nyc #ernestcolelostandfound #Raoulpeck #harlem #streetphotography

Today in Writing History May 22, 1967: Writer and activist Langston Hughes died. Hughes was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the early pioneers of Jazz Poetry. During the Civil Rights Movement, from 1942-1962, he wrote a weekly column for the black-owned Chicago Defender. His poetry and fiction depicted the lives and struggles of working-class African Americans. Much of his writing dealt with racism and black pride. Like many black artists and intellectuals of his era, he was attracted to communism as an alternative to the racism and segregation of America. He travelled to the Soviet Union and many of his poems were published in the CPUSA newspaper. He also participated in the movement to free the Scottsboro Boys and supported the Republican cause in Spain. He opposed the U.S. entering World War II and he signed a statement in support of Stalin’s purges.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackhistory #racism #lgbtq #CivilRights #Harlem #renaissance #communism #soviet #poetry #writer #BlackMastodon @bookstadon

1936 photo by Carl Van Vechten of Hughes, in a suit, looking to the side, with newspapers in the background. By Carl Van Vechten; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:07, 5 August 2010 (UTC) - Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Onlince Collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11094717

Today in Music History May 21, 1904: Jazz legend and piano master Fats Waller was born. His creativity and innovations in the Harlem stride style of piano playing influenced much of the jazz that followed. During his career, he copyrighted over 400 of his compositions. He started playing piano at age six. As a teenager, he studied with the stride piano master, James P. Johnson. In 1926, he was kidnapped by Al Capone’s men and forced at gunpoint to perform for the gangster’s birthday party. In the early 1940s, he became the first African American songwriter to compose a hit Broadway musical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNPpssruFY

#workingclass #LaborHistory #jazz #fatswaller #mafia #alcapone #racism #harlem #BlackMastadon

"All Eyes on Me"
Harlem, NYC

#streetphotography #nyc #newyorkcity #harlem #manhattan

What a city! What a world! ...
The first danger I recognized ...
was that Harlem would be
too wonderful for words.
Unless I was careful,
I would be thrilled into silence.

~ Arna Bontemps, 1924

#quote #quotation #poet #nyc #1920s #ushistory #blackhistory #harlem

#harlem

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