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[Editor’s note, December 8, 2021: Yesterday we heard the very sad news that the brilliant music writer and cultural critic Greg Tate had passed away. The Voice is working on a package of remembrances of the influential journalist for our December print issue. Below is just one sample of Tate’s always illuminating prose for this paper.]
Harlem When It Sizzled
December 1982
WHEN HARLEM WAS IN VOGUE
By David Levering Lewis
THIS WAS HARLEM, 1900–1950
By Jervis Anderson
Reading David Lewis’s and Jervis Anderson’s histories of Harlem sent echoes of Countee Cullen through my head. Those with Black
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