In the 1970s, decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus from Harlem known as urban flight.

Colson Whitehead’s “Crook Manifesto” is this year’s winner of the Gotham Book Prize for an outstanding work about New York City.

Two new studies track the effect of police violence on Black Americans.

CVS Health beat first-quarter expectations as revenue grew from all parts of its business, but the health care giant chopped its 2023 earnings forecast after closing a pair of multibillion-dollar deals.

Legendary New York DJ honored one year after losing battle to COVID-19 with graffiti mural and candlelight vigil among Orlando deejays, producers, and show hosts

Figure Skating in Harlem celebrates its 25th anniversary with a gala on April 25, and has become a success story built on academics, social growth and the ice rink.

The Winter Park Playhouse is ushering in the comeback of America’s Jazz Age with the Southeastern regional premiere of “Trav’lin: A 1930s Harlem Musical Romance.”

A New York City police officer gravely wounded in a Harlem shooting that took his partner’s life has also died of his injuries.

Officials say a New York City police officer has been killed and another critically wounded in a shooting in Harlem.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ charter school will relocate to a larger campus in New York City.

Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have made an appearance at a Harlem public school.

Many in the breaking community are eager for the art form to expand its audience after the International Olympic Committee announced last December that it would become an official sport at the Paris 2024 Games.

The Justice Department says it has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19 response.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks before getting vaccinated at a church in the Harlem section of New York, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)ALBANY, N.Y. – New York’s Assembly has hired a Manhattan law firm to assist in its impeachment investigation of Gov. The Manhattan firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which has more than 900 attorneys, will lead the probe, said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Lavine. “I have the utmost faith that Assemblymember Lavine and our Judiciary Committee will conduct a full and fair investigation,” Heastie said. On Wednesday, Cuomo received his COVID-19 vaccination at a church in Harlem, where several Black leaders in New York City appeared at his side.

Pallbearers carry the casket of pioneering Black actor Cicely Tyson from Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church to a hearse on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. The New York-born actor was 96. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)NEW YORK – Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church. It was very Cicely Tyson: It was formal, it was humorous, it was sad, it was glorious,” said Larry Thompson, Tyson's manager for more than 40 years. The New York-born actor was 96.

People wait on line to attend a public viewing for Cicely Tyson at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress died on Jan. 28. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)NEW YORK – People traveled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects to Cicely Tyson at a public viewing Monday. Hundreds of admirers of the pioneering Black actor lined up outside Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church on a wintry Monday. Many in the multigenerational crowd held photos of Tyson, who died Jan. 28.

The Erie County Health Department said it scratched vaccinations for over 8,000 people in the past few days because of inadequate supply. Less than half of the 36 million doses distributed to the states by the federal government have been administered so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He urged health care facilities not to schedule appointments to dispense vaccine they haven’t been allocated yet. The county health department received 12,000 doses last week but fewer than 2,000 this week. In New York State, Barbara Carr, a 72-year-old retiree in Buffalo, was distraught when her vaccine appointment for Thursday was canceled.

That might sound contradictory and impossible by math standards, but that partly explains the greatness of the Harlem Renaissance. The result was the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, artistic, social and intellectual explosion that spanned the entire Roaring ’20s. One of his most recognized works was a poem called “Madam and the Minister,” which spoke of the mood toward religion in the Harlem Renaissance. One of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston was a key contributor to a magazine called “Fire! There no doubt will be good celebrations in 2020, but, given the Harlem Renaissance was more than just a one-year movement, the tributes will be lasting for years to come.