Here are some of our favorite books influenced by Harlem. Which one are you picking first?

Secretary Powell has left a remarkable legacy that has lifted our culture and exemplified the best that we can aspire to be as Black Men and more broadly as human beings.

What does the history of Black entrepreneurship look like? Let’s take a look at the last hundred years of Black-owned business.

After the Civil War, George Pullman’s company became the largest employer of African Americans in the country. But his refusal to pay his porters a fair wage created a different legacy: the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American-led labor organization to receive a charter from the American Federation of Labor.

In this age of mass documentation, it’s important to look back and see how far we’ve come. Here are some important places where Black history has been documented and memorialized.

In 2016, prominent Black filmmaker Ava DuVernay (Selma, Queen Sugar producer) created a short documentary film as the Orientation film for Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Did you know the first Black rodeo was started in Harlem? “I showed the whole world: there have always been Black cowboys,” says Dr. George Blair.

The Harlem Derby began as a one day gathering of people demonstrating the pomp of the Kentucky Derby done “Harlem Style”

Few places in America are home to as much Black history as Harlem, New York. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the history of the New York Renaissance basketball team.

Harlem, often dubbed the Mecca of black culture, has history bursting out of every brownstone. So many people, places, and events that sparked global conversations and movements came from this neighborhood in NYC.