Harlem 4 Obama 2008
Barack Obama For President of the United States of America
New York, NY 10027
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Harlem for Obama is a grassroots political organization focused on delivering New York's 15th Congressional District to Senator Obama during the primary and general election. Efforts will be centered around building a district-wide coalition to support the people's choice for President of the United States!!!
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Obama Tries to Take Bite of Clinton’s Big Apple
Angling for African-Americans and youth in grassroots push.
June 11th, 2007
Barack Obama’s campaign, with fundraising, organizing and poached supporters, is working overtime to plant its grassroots in Hillary Clinton’s backyard.
State Sen. Bill Perkins, Obama’s most prominent supporter among Manhattan Democrats, said that by the middle or end of June the Obama campaign will be announcing several new endorsements in the city, complementing the growing grassroots focus. Perkins said they will come from elected officials from several boroughs, though he declined to give any names.
On top of that, unconfirmed rumors are circulating among some Clinton supporters that several well-known African-American campaign veterans with ties to Clinton have been in discussion with Obama’s campaign. None of these contacts have been confirmed.
The Obama camp strongly disagrees with this. Psaki said the candidate has been talking to New York leaders and many city residents are signing up for events in New York. Newmark noted that the young lawyers events, and others he has been to, have been very racially diverse.
Perkins said he and other campaign representatives have been reaching out to community groups. And he predicts that this is a harbinger of bigger things to come.
“There is a group called Harlem for Obama and another called Brooklyn for Obama, there was Obamathon and a whole lot of Obama movement going on,” Perkins said. “He has managed to get small dollars to add up to big dollars, that shows a real grassroots movement. That is the support that makes changes. He is part of the historical legacy that began with the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere and the movements that changed the country.”
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About Harlem
An epicenter of African-American culture for more than a century, Harlem started out as Nieuw Haarlem, a Dutch farming settlement. By the turn of the 20th century, the neighborhood prospered and, by the 1920s, Harlem had become the most famous black community in the United States, perhaps in the whole world. The Harlem Renaissance was Harlem's golden era when local writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes and Ralph Ellison achieved literary recognition. The Depression hit hard here, but happily, today the neighborhood is well on the way to new glory days. The combination of architectural treasures, crackling vitality, great music and culture and honest-to-goodness, lip-smacking soul food make Harlem a must-see destination. |
Uptown CultureHarlem's main thoroughfare is 125th Street, where you can find the famous Apollo Theater, a concert venue for luminaries as well as a rite of passage for rising musicians. Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Nat King Cole, Marvin Gaye, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Aretha Franklin have all performed here. |
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