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Heaven Was a Place in Harlem

Heaven Was a Place in Harlem The radical tableside evangelism of Father Divine — equal parts holy man, charlatan, civil rights leader, and wildly successful restaurateur. read more

‘Between Harlem and Heaven’ a history of Afro-American food

“Between Harlem and Heaven: African-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day” By JJ Johnson and Alexander Smalls. 272 pages. $37.50. Flatiron Books. read more

Between Harlem and Heaven presents a delightful fusion of Afro-Asian ...

One likes opera. The other, hip-hop. And together, iconic chef and former opera singer Alexander Smalls and James Beard nominated chef JJ Johnson have created their first ever cookbook, “Between ... read more

HARLEM WEEK 2015: This was Malcolm X’s Harlem – a home base, place ...

Harlem will be forever grateful and proud that it was the base of operations and a place of learning and inspiration for one of the great black men of the 20th century. A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION ... read more

Wallace Thurman in Harlem | The Nation

This article appears in the May 21, 2018 issue. “ M y color shrouds me in…” Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry adopts this line from Countee Cullen, another Harlem Renaissance writer ... read more