When Berenice Abbott photographed 857 Riverside Drive near 160th Street in 1937, the small, wood-frame house in today’s Washington Heights was a charming relic from New York’s antebellum era. Built in 1851 in the Italianate style, it boasted clapboard siding, wood shutters, a wraparound porch with decorative […]
As if former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani‘s reputation post-Sept. 11 wasn’t already shaky enough, a speech he gave Saturday night at a dinner commemorating the 9/11 terror attacks suggested he may have had too much to drink — or even be drunk; very drunk, […]
After a string of buzzy awards show performances over the past year — and ahead of the release of his debut album “Montero” later this month — the question wasn’t if, but how Lil Nas X would raise the bar at the 2021 MTV Music Video […]
An HBCU professor is being praised for going above and beyond when a student needed help. A viral video showing Professor Aqeel Dix, Ph.D., a health sciences professor at Lincoln University, as he holds a student’s baby while instructing the class is being celebrated. The student needed a babysitter to attend class, […]
Twenty-five years after the death of legendary West Coast rapper and actor Tupac “2pac” Shakur, his unrivaled legacy continues to reverberate throughout the hip-hop community. Monday marked the quarter-century mark since he died from gunshot wounds sustained during a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. […]
