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A train ride that used to delight children at Kiddytown, a small amusement park that operated in the 1950s and 60s in Norridge on land that later became Harlem Irving Park shopping mall, was found in ...

Oct. 31, 1950: As some people were out trick-or-treating, others were at the Catholic Youth Center in Scranton to witness a different kind of trick and treats: the athletic hi-jinks of the famed ...

Pearl Barkley moved to East Harlem in the 1950s, when she was six years old. Her family lived in the Jefferson Houses on 115th Street, where she lives today and works as an organizer with Community ...

Himes helped reinvent the idea of the detective novel. He also transformed it into a powerful vehicle for social criticism.

The strings go zing-zinging on Professor Visits Harlem. Quite unlike any other anthology you're likely to have run into of late, we're treated to three decades of jazz string ensembles, starting off ...