The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

A new marker is in place to memorialize the sound of tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins on 153rd Street on Sunday afternoon.

The 51-year-old security guard and a 39-year-old man were outside the Lambda Lounge when shots rang out just before 3 a.m.

A few soul food institutions, a Middle Eastern spot with Wednesday night karaoke, and the rest of our favorite places to eat ...

It is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country — and its most devoted supporters say not enough people know about it. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultu ...

One hundred years ago, the Afro-Puerto Rican bibliophile and archivist Arturo Schomburg donated his personal collection to the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints at the 135th Street ...

The primary bedroom has a decorative fireplace and a windowed walk-in closet that can fit a home office. Original moldings, ...

Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library.

With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their ...