‘Signs of the Times’ markers map out Harlem’s rich Black history
Luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond are celebrated and memorialized in 25 commemorative plaques that now bear ...
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Are immigrants still welcome in Mayor Eric Adams' New York City? We asked New Yorkers.
New York City's mayor has embraced a more conservative, less immigrant friendly stance. What does that mean for a city that's ...
There’s a new 18th century-style coffee house at Penn
The university open a full-scale recreation of a colonial coffee house, a centerpiece of Penn’s first major exhibit of the ...
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Overlooked no more: Lena Richard, who brought Creole cooking to the masses
In 1949, as chef Lena Richard stirred steaming pots of okra gumbo and shrimp bisque on live TV in New Orleans, viewers across ...
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How a Former Slave Became the Rockefeller of New York City’s Oyster Restaurants
Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...
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Marine Park to get ‘living neighborhood museum’ at historic Lott House
The Hendrick I. Lott House, one of Brooklyn’s oldest surviving Dutch Colonial homes, is set to become Marine Park’s first ...
60 years on, will Malcolm X's killers ever be brought to justice? | The Excerpt
What really happened the day Malcolm X was murdered and how can we understand his significance to civil rights in America?