During this time he also started to experiment with ink and wash painting seen in work like Portrait of a Woman ( 1955 ) as well as creating portraits to illustrate the music surrounding him in Harlem.

" They started with a violent disturbance in Harlem riots in 1964, and the Watts district of Los Angeles in 1965, and extended to 1971.

In 1997, they started with such players like Isabelle Fijalkowski and former Harlem Globetrotters member Lynette Woodard, who had been the first female player in Globetrotter history.

From the end of the 1970s however, the party started to lose voters to the right, leading to a turn to the right for the party under Gro Harlem Brundtland during the 1980s.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, he learned to play the saxophone and started his first band, The Harlem Hotshots, while he was still in high school.

In the last decade, some businesses in the area have started using the name SoHa ( or " South of Harlem ") to refer to the neighborhood.

Billboard started making a separate list of hit records for African-American music in October 1942 with the " Harlem Hit Parade ", which was changed in 1945 to " Race Records ", and then in 1949 to " Rhythm and Blues Records ".

Erving recalled, " ater on, in the Rucker Park league in Harlem, when people started calling me ' Black Moses ' and ' Houdini ', I told them if they wanted to call me anything, call me ' Doctor '.

By 1914 middle-class blacks from the area started moving to Harlem, which had been primarily white.

Coleman was born and raised in Harlem, New York, where he started his rap career with Three the Hard Way.

One of the few cornerers whose rationale was published and justified, Cornelius Vanderbilt started accumulating shares of the Harlem Railroad in 1862 because he anticipated its strategic value.

It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka ( born Everett LeRoi Jones ).

Upon their return in January 1996, they immediately started a feud with the Steiner Brothers, who returned in March, and Harlem Heat, before moving on to challenge the WCW Tag Team Champions Sting and Lex Luger.

In 2012, the Cooper-Hewitt started work on a design center in Harlem to " Encourage students and their teachers to think like designers, approach the world in a visual way and better understand the role design plays in their everyday lives.

That started to change in 1840 when the New York and Harlem Railroad arrived.

The court is named after Harlem teacher and playground director for the New York City Parks Department Holcombe L. Rucker, who started a basketball tournament in 1950 in order to help less fortunate kids stay off the streets and aim for college careers.

In 1989, the church was one of the first to respond to Pernessa C. Seele's call for a Harlem Week of Prayer, started to mobilize the religious community in support of people with AIDS and their families.

While Booker T liked the addition, Stevie Ray neglected her help and started arguing with Booker T. Stevie Ray eventually challenged Midnight in a match that would decide whether she would stay with Harlem Heat.

During 1923 to 1931, Bennett started a support group that provided a warm, supportive place for the young writers of Harlem that provided sustained association with their peers.

Loon started his music career as a member of Mase's rap collective Harlem World.

Aoki, a wrestler who had qualified for but did not attend the 1960 Summer Olympics started the restaurant with $ 10, 000 earned from driving an ice cream truck in Harlem.

After this prison term, Manigault quit heroin and started the " Walk Away From Drugs " tournament for kids in Harlem to prevent them from making the same mistakes he had made.

Born as Lonnie Thompson Lincoln in Harlem, in New York City, Lonnie started out as troubled youth who was bullied by his peers because he was Harlem's only African American albino.

The team that would later be known as “ Men on a Mission ” started out by competing as a team in the Pro Wrestling Federation and the United States Wrestling Association where they wrestled as The Harlem Knights with Frazier being known as Nelson Knight and Horne as Bobby Knight, with the two being billed as brothers.

Morgan filled the fire box with wood again, then started supper and set the table.

Curt caught him flush on the nose with a blow which started at the floor.

Hitching his cartridge belt around, Pat glanced upward briefly at the Palace and started that way with Cobb at his side.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.

He kept on laughing until she started laughing with him.

In her sophomore year she had started going steady with Bobby Joe, who was a football player, Future Homemakers sweetheart, and president of Future Farmers.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

However, we started with the first row of bars and worked our way back.

But with Welch's relentless pursuit of the subject, Barco finally `` broke '' and started confessing to one murder after another.

`` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '', I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand.

And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning.

This sequence of equations may be started with the remark that with no process Af there is no profit, i.e., Af.

Kearton and Ulyate had started the day together while Jones followed the dogs, and Means and Loveless had taken another route, and now, with the discovery of the fresh trail still unknown to him, Ulyate reined in, in the shadow of the Reef and pointed.

Roberts brushed at his eyes with his free hand and started down the steps.

He parked facing it and left the headlights on, but when he started into the tunnel with the suitcase, he found the illumination extended no farther than half a dozen feet into the passage.

Some opposition to the home rule movement started to be heard yesterday, with spokesmen for the town's insurgent Democratic leadership speaking out against the home rule charter in favor of the model municipal league charter.

Rosburg had started early in the day, and by the time Palmer and Player were on the course -- separated, as they were destined to be for the rest of the weekend, by about half an hour -- they could see on the numerous scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg, who ended with a 73, was not having a good day.