The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

When it comes to American military history, few units are as storied and famous as the Harlem Hellfighters. Officially the ...

Elegant or rustic, a tangible, specific, and concrete Harlem can be explored in the book, “ Harlem Lost and Found: An Architectural and Social History, 1795-1915 ” by yours truly, Michael Henry Adams ...

A "cultural Mecca" for the Black community, Harlem's historic Apollo Theater is set to undergo a major renovation. Newsweek ...

The late congressman’s upending of New York politics by choosing progressivism over partisanship offers a lesson for today.

Charles Rangel, the longtime New York congressman, is being remembered with a series of public viewings in Harlem and City Hall.

A prominent political alliance that emerged from Harlem in the 1970s, the four politicians helped reshape New York politics by breaking racial barriers and opening the door to greater Black ...

A new biography of A’Lelia Walker—the daughter of beauty mogul Madam C. J. Walker—reveals how her role as one of her era's ...

Charles Rangel, the dapper, voluble US congressman from New York’s Harlem district who for four decades used his perch on the House tax-writing committee to advocate for inner cities and the people ...

With “Pride at Maysles” amplifying Queer Black culture, Harlem’s Maysles Documentary Center reprises the Homo-Harlem film festival.

Charles Rangel, the longtime U.S. congressman from New York City and the last surviving member of the "Gang of Four," has died. He was 94. Born in Harlem on June 11, 1930, Rangel was a Democratic ...

The New York for All and Dignity Not Detention Acts will help us shield our neighbors from federal deportation overreach.