Harlem

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• SOURCE: History.com
  6/5/2020
  

  How the Police Shooting of a Black Soldier Triggered the 1943 Harlem Riots

  Scholars Nikki Jones, Michael Flamm, and Dominic Capeci describe what exactly unfolded during these riots, what motivated them, and what they represented.

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• SOURCE: The Gotham Center for New York City History
  3/23/20
  

  An Interview with Historian Ansley Erickson

  Erickson is the co-editor of Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community, a new book from the Harlem Education History Project.

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• 1/27/19
  

  Review: Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Fox takes the reader all the way back to 1914 and discusses entertainment in Harlem, and New York City, in that bustling era when vaudeville was sill king to set the stage for the debut of the Apollo in 1934.

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• 7-17-17
  

  Whole Foods Is Opening in Harlem. Should We Be Celebrating?

  by Brian D. Goldstein

  It’s more complicated than you think.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3-21-16
  

  When Castro Came to Harlem

  by Steven Cohen

  The Cuban leader’s last visit to the U.S. before the 1961 diplomatic fallout can tell us a lot about our present historic moment.

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• 11-13-13
  

  The Cotton Club of 1932 Returns with a Roar

  by Bruce Chadwick

  "After Midnight" is a winner for bringing Harlem’s Depression jubilant night life back to life.