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No arrests made after gunfire erupts at social gathering

As his merengue-inflected single "Suavemente" once again topped France's songs chart, Algerian rapper Soolking was stateside, delighting fans and wooing new followers with his blend of rap and Maghrebian folk music. Already acclaimed in the Francophone world, the Algerian rapper Soolking this year set his sights on North America, where…

PHILADELHPIA —They were a collective of Philadelphia writers — teachers, students, newcomers to Black literary circles, others well-acquainted with rising stars from Harlem’s artistic milieu. They decided to put out a literary journal themselves. They’d call it Black Opals.

A bold new experiment in New York aims to turn the tide following a year of record overdose deaths in the US, Richard Hall writes

A bold new experiment in New York aims to turn the tide following a year of record overdose deaths in the US, Richard Hall writes

A bold new experiment in New York aims to turn the tide following a year of record overdose deaths in the US, Richard Hall writes

NEW YORK — The Rev. Al Sharpton had never seen anything quite like it at his Harlem headquarters.

Rihanna, 33, announced her first pregnancy on Monday, showing off her blossoming baby bump on a stunning photoshoot in Harlem as she posed alongside boyfriend A$AP Rocky

He captured poets, jazz giants and everyday black America. As a new exhibition of the great Harlem-born photographer’s work opens, his widow Sherry Turner DeCarava remembers his craft