NEW YORK (AP) — The Lenox Lounge, a Harlem cabaret with a supercool, Art Deco style that made it a favorite of jazz greats like Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, is closing its doors on ...

1926 The cabaret law is created to crack down on multiracial Harlem jazz clubs. “Most of the jazz in 1926 was being played in clubs in Harlem where there were mixed groups. And a lot of people ...

In Manhattan appeared the first issues of the second U. S. Negro daily newspaper,* the Daily Citizen, published and edited by bald, brown William M. Kelley, onetime editor of the weekly Amsterdam News ...