Figure skating is seen as an elite, mostly white sport, but a new documentary series tells the story of a program for Black girls in Harlem looking to change that.

The people of Harlem were mourning the loss of 15-year-old James Powell, a Black teenager fatally shot by Thomas Gilligan, a white, off-duty police officer. Headlines read "Negro boy killed ...

(Theresa Braine/NYDN) “Old Harlem is disappearing,” Taylor said. “That’s why While We Are Still Here is a really needed entity right now, just to codify as much of the history as we ...

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But as Maravrich's senior year ended, like many top prospects, he was flooded with offers from different professional teams—and even the Harlem Globetrotters. "I was offered a 1 million dollar ...

Those who bravely did so are heralded with long-overdue recognition in "The Swans of Harlem," a new book by Karen Valby that ...

To them, Hudgin's bank, like the other ten, white-run, banks in Harlem, is one more part of the power structure, one more reason why Harlem is an economic colony of New York city. They feel that ...

Cody Diaz, a shelter resident in East Harlem, pointed to the White House this week moving to axe the loathed congestion pricing tax as a sign the current administration has a chutzpah to close the ...

Their writing and their music, a cultural movement that would become known as the Harlem Renaissance, ultimately found wider, mainstream acclaim. At a time when white culture was celebrating ...