"Harlem Document" is a portfolio of photographs by Aaron Siskind that reveals Harlem in the 1930s when it was no longer a cultural center but not yet a complete slum. The country was in the middle ...

A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.

and social activist who emerged as a central figure during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. Hughes wrote “unapologetically about Black life at a time when segregation was law and ...

The Great Depression put a damper on the arts and culture across the nation -- and Harlem was no exception. However, these black luminaries continued to work throughout the 1930s and were joined ...

In the Savoy Ballroom, where the Lindy Hop was pioneered in the 1930s, the average nightly attendance was 80 percent Black and 15 percent white. Today, the majority of professional swing dancers are ...

Red Rooster Overtown fuses the artistic spirit of 1930s Harlem with the rich history of Overtown—Miami’s heartbeat of Black ...