New York City will mark a key milestone this year: The transit system hired its first Black train conductor 90 years ago, shattering a barrier that has since offered tens of thousands of African ...
Critics slammed New York Magazine for cropping black people out of a photo of a pro-Trump party it ran on its cover this week — with the story inside claiming that the crowd was almost entirely ...
(Courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) What we know as the Schomburg Center began at the New York Public Library’s 135th St. branch. As Harlem grew, a growing population of ...
The Rev. Al Sharpton, a longtime ally of Mayor Adams, is convening top Black elected leaders from New York to “decide where we will go” amid concerns President Trump’s Department of Justice ...
The Black co-host of the pictured event is calling it "insane" that he was removed from the picture of the event in Washington, D.C. on the eve of Trump's inauguration. By Kevin Dolak New York ...
Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first Black woman to practice medicine in New York state, graduating as valedictorian and opening a prosperous office in Brooklyn. "She's working as a ...
Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the end of the Civil War. Narratives of the Black families who harbored ...
Black jewelers reflected on the racial justice movement, and on how a wave of support that pushed them forward since 2020 has shifted. By Melanie Grant The jewelry designer Lola Oladunjoye ...
New York magazine was accused of cropping out Black people from an image of a pro-Trump party it described as nearly entirely White on Monday. Conservatives on social media were quick to point out ...
Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, fashion and more. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...
"They messaged me and said they had been talking about how fun it could be to collab with me and create a new pasty called the Black Dagger Pasty," Mr Barber explained. "So I created a pasty filled ...
The devastated widow of a firefighter who died on New York City’s notorious “Black Sunday” — exactly 20 years ago Thursday — said she’s still struck by sudden tearful waves of grief ...