The Harlem Renaissance and Dr. Vincent

These Harlem totes are not exactly doctor bags, but they'll have to do. At Bellevue Hospital, in downtown Manhattan, they had a tribute to Dr. Urbert Conrad Vincent on "Black History Thursday" on February 14th, 12 Noon, in the Saul Farber Auditorium, 1st ave, near 27th St. Dr. Vincent is the first Afro-American Doctor in New York, in this case, a surgeon, and possibly the United States. Seems pretty late for such an honor. Perhaps this refers to doctors in mainstream "white" institutions.

Dr. Vincent's daughter is still alive and was there to share highlights of her father's career, with Dr. Vincent starting as a surgeon at Bellevue in the 1920s. Dr. Vincent made his home in Harlem on 138th St, Strivers Row and was part of the Harlem Renaissance.

Dr. Vincent set up the Vincent Sanatorium at 2348 7th Ave by 137th St in 1929, but due to bad financial conditions, it had to shut down after a year. For more on Dr. Vincent, see the Journal of the National Medical Association, 1975, Vol67, No.1 PP. 73-80. The T-shirt Queen joins in remembering Dr. Vincent and enjoying the rest of Black History Month.

Somehow I ended up in Harlem, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Yes, I was looking for other Harlem, NY sportswear online, and somehow I ended up in http://www.universeonatshirt.com/girls-t-shirt.html, which is a site in Harlem, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands! That is not necessarily a bad thing to look at, although the shipping costs are probably astronomical. This is the Universe on a Tee-shirt site, and they do have some nice stuff.

A lot of the designs are on t-shirts and hoodies, but are a bit incomprehensible. For example, on a green hoodie, for Euro-69, you get a white streaked spread out bird, and some more splats of white paint. The feeder site for this site, Thrill List Nation , admits that they are inspired by the abstract painter, Mondrian. Their hoodie, with the little Mondrian color squares, is available there for $86.

On a more serious notes, as we approach black history month, we should think about Malcolm X, and how he freed the minds of a lot of people. He was assassinated, February 21, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom in Upper Manhattan, by 165th St, and Broadway, just north of Harlem. By the way, part of the facade of the Audubon Ballroom has been preserved, even though the rest of the building and the site has been turned into a medical office or some other type of office.