Harlem

Music

Bud Powell should be a household name

He cherished the few joys in his life and celebrated them through his innovative approach to the piano

Harry Cluff

The cost of decarceration

Sometimes our criminal justice system isn’t harsh enough

Rafael A. Mangual

The psychopath who wrecked New York

Robert Moses played the humble public servant, yet he despised the poor

Robert Gore-Langton

Colson Whitehead celebrates old Harlem in a hardboiled thriller that’s also a morality tale

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead reviewed

Lindsay Johns

Art

Liberty and death: Jacob Lawrence’s struggle for freedom

His tale is not a ‘let’s hold hands and sing for liberty’ triumph. It’s a violent, gritty and gruesome affair

Andrew L. Shea