Around 25 years ago a newly-licensed tour guide, Eric K. Washington, led groups around Seneca Village for the New-York Historical Society. For those not familiar with it: Seneca Village exists toda…

The Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities invites you to an evening at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building dedicated to biography research and the Research Library's vast collectio...

A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media and later the written word.

The proliferation of gentleman’s clubs was common to New York society of a century ago, but the Frog Pond at 111 West 132nd Street in…

Woodlawn's Black History Month Trolley Tour

Around 1909 Philadelphia department store magnate John Wanamaker, an ardent music lover, began publishing The Opera News magazine. But his…

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Appearing in scores of stage productions, she dazzled audiences for nearly six decades, most memorably starring as Anita in “West Side Story” and Velma Kelly in “Chicago.”

$5000 for an Exceptional Biography-in-progress About an African American Subject

Though he played a naïve buffoon onstage, he was the driving force behind the folk-singing duo’s groundbreaking TV show.