Members of the community held a memorial in March for native Harlemite and cop watch activist Jazz Hayden, who passed on Jan. 6 at age 82.
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During the service at Harlem’s Erudite Academy, it was noted how he was a Harlemite from day one. Hayden was born May 12, 1941 at Harlem Hospital, and went from being a reckless youth during the 1970s to serving as a lieutenant for disgraced drug kingpin Nicky Barnes. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees while in prison, and later became an advocate for parolees and convicts.
Hayden was one of Barnes’ close associates in a squad known as “the Council.” The collective was convicted of conspiracy to distribute $1 million worth of heroin a month; Hayden got a 15-year sentence. During their 1977 trial, prosecutors called Hayden the No. 2 man. “ stopped at the prison walls,” Hayden said in a 2005 interview. “What Congress gave, the states took away…We have unfinished business. We hope to sweep these laws, too, into the dustbin of history along with the poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause.”“Mr.
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