Harlem Youth Report #5 was published in 1964 and distributed only in Harlem. It was a comic book for the Black community, and was part of an effort to study the issues facing the residents of Harlem ...

NEW YORK — When Kathy Smith was growing up in the South Bronx, her parents would often take her and her siblings out for family drives. It was on one of those drives, in the late 1960s, that she saw ...

Godfather of Harlem tells a story inspired by infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) who in the early 1960s returned from 11 years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in ...

When she wrote “Wine in the Wilderness,” playwright Alice Childress seems to have been kind of fed up. One of the first Black women writers to have her work performed regularly in New York theaters, ...

Four paintings from Hampton University’s collection are on display at The Met as part of a lauded Harlem Renaissance exhibition. Since it opened on Feb. 25, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new ...