Harlem

Frank Sinatra had to beg for his life after the New York mafia took out a hit on him in the early 1970s, according to a new book. Mafia Takedown, …

Ever since Adam Clayton Powell Jr.’s reign, beginning in the late 1930s, Abyssinian Baptist has been one of the most influential Black churchs in the country, a force in the …

A New York City nonprofit group, flush with millions in private capital, is piloting a first-of-its-kind savings program to address the racial wealth gap — by giving thousands of students …

A former US ambassador who pleaded guilty to spying for Cuba says he was radicalized while studying at Yale university.  Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in December in Miami …

It was, as Robert Garland said from the stage, a momentous occasion for him. Greeting the crowd at his first New York City Center season as the artistic director of …

Robert Garland has held many positions at Dance Theater of Harlem over many years — principal dancer, resident choreographer, school director, archivist and company webmaster. At long last, he has …

Notoriously, in the winter of 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its first exhibition devoted to African American culture, but with a show devoid of art. Called “Harlem on …

Derek Fordjour traces his interest in Harlem Renaissance art to his childhood in Tennessee, where he saw Aaron Douglas’s murals at Fisk University, and to his art history classes at …