Dr. Josephine English, a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, was the first Black woman to open a private practice in the ...

If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...

NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.

The controversial One45 for Harlem project, which could bring two towers with nearly 1,000 new apartments to East Harlem, secured the backing of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine this week — a ...

Boasting a bi-partisan contingent of detractors, it is almost impossible to find anyone who doesn't have an opinion about Meghan Markle or Melania Trump and it's the negative voices that tend to be ...

While the new administration takes aim at DEI initiatives, there’s one place where diversity is alive and well: Children’s literature. At a time when book bans are raging and the federal government is ...

In a historically underrepresented field, Silly Nice, a small Black- and veteran-owned cannabis brand, is part of an effort ...