NEW HOPE, Pa. - "That's what would always make me recognize her. She's always embracing, has someone embracing," said Mary Flamer of the Phillips' Mill Community Association. Selma Burke was a key ...

The new exhibition features works by Black American artists who lived in Europe from the 1890s to the middle of the 20th ...

With its mix of Jewish immigrants, Black residents of Harlem, and privileged white characters, the Broadway show Ragtime is ...

During Prohibition, between 1920 and 1933, when there was a nationwide ban on the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages, thousands of formerly legal bars and saloons were closed. These ...

A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents. As a teen, Alaudin Ullah was swept up by the energy of hip-hop and rebelled against his Bangladeshi roots.

The Harlem renaissance at the turn of the 20th century was celebrated for a flowering of African American arts, writing and music. The same era produced fabulous architecture, from houses and churches ...

Introduction -- Part I. Debating what and how Harlem students learn in the Renaissance and beyond -- Schooling the new Negro: progressive education, black modernity, and the long Harlem Renaissance -- ...

NPR's Juan Williams talks about how Harlem is changing, with two men who have long associations with that traditionally black Manhattan neighborhood: Michael Meyers, who heads the New York Civil ...

A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents. As a teen, Alaudin Ullah was swept up by the energy of hip-hop and rebelled against his Bangladeshi roots.