The Harlem Renaissance Never Ended—It Just Evolved
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The Harlem Renaissance Never Ended—It Just Evolved
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Harlem Is Gentrifying, but Black Women Still Have All the Power
Morgan JerkinsCredit.Sire Leo Lamar-Becker
By Jamie Figueroa
CAUL BABY
By Morgan Jerkins
In 1998, the Melancon family of women resides on West 145th and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, in a “brownstone on a quiet, picturesque block,” their house guarded by a fleur-de-lis-adorned gate “that made the entrance inaccessible.” Harlem is changing. White residents are multiplying, and rents are increasing. The Melancons afford their home and lifestyle not by the bodega they own down the street, but by selling sections of their skin, or caul, to those who can afford it, primarily white clientele. When worn close to the body like a charm, the legend goes, caul can miraculously make a barren womb fertile, heal cancer or remedy any number of other physical afflictions.