Harlem reborn
A dream is no longer deferred
WALK along 125th Street in Harlem, and it is hard not to get swept up in the history of the place. Many buildings still stand from the 1920s, when Harlem was the centre of a thriving black culture. Its side streets are lined with beautiful brownstone houses. On 125th Street itself are legendary buildings: the Apollo Theatre, where Ella Fitzgerald first sang, and Theresa Towers, where Fidel Castro met Nikita Khrushchev in 1960.
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