This practice led to rising violent crime, and by the early ’90s, the victims were increasingly children. On July 17, 1991, Julia Parker, a popular 17-year-old high school student in East New York, ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... was sentenced to 111 years in prison. The White House said in a statement that Peoples ...

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When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became “Black History Month” in 1976, he sought not ...

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Nicole Beharie and André Holland appear in Love, Brooklyn by Rachael Abigail Holder, an official selection of the 2025 ...

Newsday Investigation Interactive map ... Long Island Black and Latino communities hardest A Black Long Islander is seven times more likely to have been diagnosed with HIV as a white resident.

Using survey data, responses from community boards & city council members, and over 37,000 responses from NYC residents, a team at the NY Times has made a detailed map of the 350+ distinct ...

The word "Connecticut" takes its namesake from the Mohegan word "Quinnehtukqut," which means "long tidal river" and references the Connecticut River – New England's longest, running through the state ...

Some of the private streets in Manhattan are well known, like the Washington Mews, part of New York University’s Greenwich ...

At the start of this century, it was commonplace to say there were no good restaurants on the Upper West Side. It was wrong then and is even more wrong now, as dynamic new places open. A cluster ...

If you’re wondering if your street has been plowed for snow in New York City, a map will show you exactly where roads have been cleared. The PlowNYC map, created by the ...