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- noun Plural form of
Harlemite .
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Examples
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However, since the majority of New Yorkers or Harlemites live such fast-paced, complex lives, finding that special someone can be daunting.
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Thus you have a piece by Richard Wright describing, with what the Library of America's editors characterize as dubious fidelity, scenes of Harlemites spontaneously marching behind anti-Nazi placards after Joe Louis's destruction of Max Schmeling.
The Bards of Bruising Tim Marchman 2011
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Join Keith Campbell, the star of the highly anticipated reality series, The Hair Architect Show, as he takes on some of his toughest clients … busy Harlemites.
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Besides us new Harlemites want to help build this community … my money will stay within Harlem!
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LGBTQ Harlemites have resigned themselves to have dialogues on same-sex marriage -- if not in their black churches, then in various public gay-friendly arts venues throughout Harlem.
Irene Monroe: Marriage Equality Film Comes to Harlem Irene Monroe 2011
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TV Join Keith Campbell, the star of the highly anticipated reality series, The Hair Architect Show, as he takes on some of his toughest clients … busy Harlemites.
2010 April « 2010
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When blacks began renting in the blocks from West 133rd Street to West 135th Street in the 1910s, a group of white Harlemites proposed building a 24-foot-high fence, saying they wanted to keep out "the dark plague."
The Mecca of Black America Edward Kosner 2011
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The unions and the politicians also play on Harlemites 'fears by alleging that charters divide the community and are a "tool for gentrification."
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Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s receives a thorough and insightful treatment in "Playing the Numbers," which recounts a flowering of black entrepreneurship in addition to capturing how integral the numbers game was to the lives of average Harlemites.
Gambling Days In Harlem Michael J. Agovino 2010
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" A Man with a Ukulele, 1975, " " A Barber at the Garden Barber Shop, 1976 " and " A Boy in Front of Loews 125th Street Movie Theater, 1976 " are among the other Harlemites you can meet.
Hindsight and Tunnel Vision William Meyers 2010
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