In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame h

Making a Promised Land examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving i

A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.

The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.

Widely believed to be the most extreme incident of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre