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POLITICSNY 2025 Black Power Players at https://politicsny.com/power-lists/2025-black-power-players/#alvin-bragg

Alvin Bragg- Manhattan DA
2025 Black Power Player in PoliticsNY

Alvin Bragg

Manhattan District Attorney, Office of the Manhattan District Attorney

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. is the 37th district attorney elected in Manhattan. A lifelong Harlemite, Alvin made history as the first Black Manhattan district attorney. He has spent more than two decades as a federal, state, and local prosecutor and civil rights attorney fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer. Alvin earned his A.B. from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

What is the proudest moment in your career so far?
In the three years that I’ve been in office, we have worked with the NYPD to drive down gun violence substantially. Shootings in Manhattan are down 45% compared to 2021 and murders are down 20% compared to 2021. There is more work to do, but I look forward to continued collaboration with our law enforcement partners, community groups and local residents to push these numbers down even further and deliver lasting public safety.

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The number one Soul LP for the week ending 6/15/74 according to Billboard magazine (page 35)

Five most added singles June 2 1984, Billboard magazine

More from the June 2, 1984 issue of Billboard at neosoul.com/billboard

the album cover for the Purple Rain soundtrack
Released June 18, 1984

The Purple Rain album was released 40 years ago. Now it might come to Broadway. Click on the image above to go to https://www.neosoul.com/music/prince/purplerain.html and learn about the making of Purple Rain, watch the videos for When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy, and a live performance of Purple Rain (the night the We Are the World recording happened), and what award Prince received for the songs on this album.

Read the review of Prince’s single “When Doves Cry” and other articles from the June 2, 1984 issue of Billboard at neosoul.com/billboard

Check out neosoul.com/mtv to see which SOUL artists’ videos were in rotation in May 1984

Voting Rights and Voting Discouragement

Listen to Jerry Mitchell talk about Billy Porter at the 1:09:54 mark in this podcast.

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Tina Rocks Back into Top 40. Read complete article
at https://neosoul.com/tina-turner/

Tina’s versions of the music in Tina! The Tina Turner Musical

Supreme Court’s Blow to Right to Protest Is Another Attack on Black Political Power

Read the article at CAPITAL B news

Check out the various AppleMusic playlists I have curated:

neosoul.com/music/playlists.html

Neo Soul is a name for Alternative R&B:

WHAT IS alternative R&B? Rap-free jazz and R&B. This music combines traditional R&B elements and
contemporary lyrics without the hard-driving rhythms and lyrics of hip-hop (Source: Janine Coveney, “The Rhythm and
the Blues,” Billboard, p. 34,December 27, 1997).

or is Neo Soul different than Alternative R&B?

According to Wikipedia, neosoul describes a style of music that emerged from SOUL and contemporary R&B. D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell are usually mentioned as examples of neo-soul artists.