Summer did not just lead residents to depart Harlem for day trips and longer summer camps; it also brought visitors…
Hubert Julian, by his own account, arrived in Harlem in 1921. Born in Trinidad in 1897, he had migrated to…
Sports loomed large among the entertainments patronized by Harlem’s residents in the 1920s. Basketball occupied the most prominent place. Romeo…
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…
Perry Brown* was a forty-five-year-old born in Pennsylvania, who was placed on probation after stealing coats from the building of…
With the publication of our book Playing the Numbers drawing near, I’ve added some more pages explaining the game: how…
