The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

Frank Sinatra was known as a lover of Italian food, so his pick for his favorite pizza place of all time held a lot of weight ...

Sarah Breedlove was born into a family of former slaves. However, as thriving entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, she blazed a trail for black America.

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...