{"id":351,"date":"2006-11-18T23:36:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=351"},"modified":"2006-12-23T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T09:21:06","slug":"harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image389\" alt=\"25160005.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/25160005.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image391\" alt=\"25160012.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/25160012.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>a journey into Harlem, to follow traces of pieces of Black American history and in particular Afro-American Islam. Masjid Malcolm Shabaz, the Nation of Islam mosque which Malcolm X once lead. the story of Betty X Shabbaz, Malcolm X (Shabbaz)&#8217;s widow, who died in the late 1990s when her home was set on fire by her teenage grandson, Malcolm, leaves us with a taste of the desintegration of that political legacy. we talk briefly with some people sitting outside of the mosque, to get a sense of what the mosque does (real estate! at first we laugh with how &#8220;american&#8221; this is, but of course in a city like new york this is crucial to a community&#8230;) and who the community is today, but we don&#8217;t get much of an idea. the image of the grandson Malcolm setting the house on fire dominates my thoughts. when later on we go to find Harlem&#8217;s Liberation bookstore &#8211; the store closed down, the building in scaffolds. such a sad sight. the struggle to survive, the pressure, the burn out (ay, the grandson pops up again&#8230;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image390\" alt=\"25160006.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/25160006.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>a delicious meal at Amy Ruth&#8217;s Home-Style Southern Cuisine, eventhough we definately get many things wrong &#8211; the belgians ask for mayonnaise (hm, just for the record, i was perfectly happy with ketchup, its the other one who insisted&#8230;) and the non-southerners eat their fried chicken with fork and knife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a journey into Harlem, to follow traces of pieces of Black American history and in particular Afro-American Islam. Masjid Malcolm Shabaz, the Nation of Islam mosque which Malcolm X once lead. the story of Betty X Shabbaz, Malcolm X (Shabbaz)&#8217;s widow, who died in the late 1990s when her home was set on fire by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/harlem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;harlem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}