Former New York City Congressman Charlie Rangel, a fixture on Capitol Hill and Democratic power player for nearly half a century, died Monday. He was 94. Rangel, 94, was a Harlem political ...

On May 10, 2025, rap pioneers The Sugarhill Gang celebrated 45 years of success of their iconic hit "Rapper's Delight" and more at Nashville's AB Hillsboro Village.

After one Harlem building racked up over 100 open violations from the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, its residents gathered on Tuesday morning to protest their ...

This was Angie Brown—a child of the deep South and Black church, she had ventured far from home to make her mark on music. After hit songs on Sugar Hill Records and after Sha-Rock made a ...

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, born-and-raised journalist turned screenwriter who penned “New Jack City ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died.

The trio was comprised of New Jack City, Above The Rim and the 1994 movie Sugar Hill, starring Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright and Abe Vigoda. All three movies are occasionally collectively known as ...

I moved to New York in the summer of 2010 to Sugar Hill, Harlem. What I saw around me were so different from what I was used to in Israel—the smells, the sights, the sound and the rhythm—all ...

Sugar Hill bought the building for $3.8 million in late 2018 from Irving Langer’s E&M Associates as part of a 55-building deal valued at $250 million.

The style is known for its paint pigments, water and egg yolks. Safranek used the style to paint 30 members of the Sugar Hill, Harlem community, using digital photos as his guide.