NY drug deaths drop slightly, but racial disparities deepen. Black residents are hit hardest.
Used needles are seen on the street during a sweep of a homeless encampment in New York City, on Sept. 22, 2022. For the first time in four years, drug overdose deaths declined, according to new data. [ more › ]
How Black leaders in New York are grappling with Eric Adams and representation
NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn’t a shock to many Black New Yorkers that Mayor Eric Adams has surrounded himself with African-American civil rights leaders, clergy and grassroots activists since his indictment last week on federal bribery charges. Adams, a Brooklyn native who rose from the city’s working...
Discover Black History In Amsterdam With Black Heritage Tours
Through Black Heritage Tours, cultural historian Jennifer Tosch is making sure the hidden history of the African diaspora is more visible in the Netherlands and New York. Tosch founded Black Heritage Tours in 2013. Connecting the dots of her own family’s history was the inspiration for her growing initiatives in the two cities. “My family,… Continue reading Discover Black History In Amsterdam With Black Heritage Tours
The Women Giving Harlem’s National Black Theatre a Monumental New Home
At a glance, the west side of Fifth Avenue between 125th and 126th streets teems with information about what Harlem is, what it was, and what it’s still becoming. There are the area’s mainstays—an African hair-braiding place, an all-important corner store—with a big Baptist church just north, between 126th and 127th. There’s a sense of history by proximity—the Apollo Theater is a few blocks west, Maya Angelou’s old town house sits a few blocks south—but the markers of “modern” Harlem are apparent too. On 125th and Fifth, what was once a large, rather dark Applebee’s is now a slightly hipper Shake Shack, and for years Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka lived with their twins in the late-19th-century brownstone three doors up.