In Harlem, cricket was a game almost exclusively played by West Indian immigrants. The game had a prominent place in…
Summer did not just lead residents to depart Harlem for day trips and longer summer camps; it also brought visitors…
Cross-posted from drstephenrobertson.com On March 19, 2016, I participated in the Working Group on Interpreting the History of Race Riots…
Numbers gambling formed part of the rhythm of Harlem’s street life. A map of arrests for playing the numbers in…
Hubert Julian, by his own account, arrived in Harlem in 1921. Born in Trinidad in 1897, he had migrated to…
In 1911, Harlem gained its own black professional baseball team, the Lincoln Giants. The white brothers, Edward and Jess McMahon,…
Sports loomed large among the entertainments patronized by Harlem’s residents in the 1920s. Basketball occupied the most prominent place. Romeo…
Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was headquartered in Harlem from 1918 to 1927. The organization generally appears in…
Harlem is also a parade ground. During the warmer months of the year no Sunday passes without several parades. There…
A new feature has been added to Digital Harlem, thanks to the folks at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory. It is…
