Two weeks ago, the Lotta seemed like one of Harlem’s most promising condo buildings. A beautiful old structure built before the first World War, it was being renovated and turned into a boutique ...

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For some African-American writers, New York’s uptown neighborhood of Harlem represents both a crucible and a showcase. Writing about Harlem has been known to launch literary careers, for those good ...

In the embodiment of hustle, Colson Whitehead brilliantly weaves crime fiction, family drama and political history in one rollicking and heartrending novel with Harlem Shuffle. Also Read:‘The Snowy ...

Colson Whitehead's last two books won Pulitzer Prizes. "The Underground Railroad" was about slavery and escape. "The Nickel Boys" was about a reform school in Florida where boys were brutalized. So it ...

There will likely never be an adjective “Whiteheadian” — like Wordsworthian, Joycean or Dickensian — because Colson Whitehead, National Book Award recipient and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize ...

After winning back-to-back Pulitzers, the author of “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys” took another detour with his new crime novel, “Harlem Shuffle.” New York City is “always being laid ...

Earl Lee Nelson, half of the soul-music singing duo Bob & Earl, who were best known for writing the R&B; classic “Harlem Shuffle,” has died. He was 79. Nelson, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died July ...

The heart of Harlem is being reshaped – some say gutted – in a blitz of big-money real-estate deals, starting with nearly a dozen small shops getting squeezed out to make way for retail and office ...

Four paintings from Hampton University’s collection are on display at The Met as part of a lauded Harlem Renaissance exhibition. Since it opened on Feb. 25, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new ...