black history

A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019 and business was booming for Stacey Toussaint, founder of diversity and inclusion-centered Inside Out Tours. But when the coronavirus pandemic brought the city to a standstill, Toussaint was left to figure out how to keep her tourism business running when there simply were no tourists.

A new Broadway show opened for the first time during the pandemic, and that’s not the only reason “Thoughts of a Colored Man” is making history.

A new Broadway show opened for the first time during the pandemic, and that’s not the only reason “Thoughts of a Colored Man” is making history. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A seemingly insignificant, half-empty parking lot on the north shore of Staten Island has gotten the attention of historians, local leaders and even a documentary filmmaker — not for what’s above ground, but for what lies underneath it. The rundown lot on the corner Forest and Livermore Avenue in what is often called a forgotten borough is a forgotten corner…

NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The brick foundation of one the oldest Black churches in the United States has been unearthed by archeologists at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

Imagine it’s the 1940s and you’ve given years of your life to redesigning one of the most iconic hotels in the United States.
Imagine it’s then hailed by your peers as a modern-day marvel. Now, imagine you’re not even allowed to stay there because you’re Black.

Paul R. Williams was the architect behind some of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles and the homes of many of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 20th century. The Los Angeles County Courthouse, Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles International Airport are just a few of the designs that sprang from his imagination. But despite the...

We all know about the Underground Railroad —the network that Harriet Tubman and others used to bring enslaved people from the South to the northern free states in the years through the Civil War. But you likely haven’t learned about the alternate route to freedom that ran through Florida and existed with the help of the Black Seminoles. This is...

There is a fight to preserve the Upper Manhattan home from 1851, believed to be one of the last owned by a known abolitionist and may have been used to house slaves as they escaped to freedom

There’s a fight to preserve an a building with ties to the Underground Railroad. The house at 857 Riverside Drive is one of the last believed to be owned by an abolitionist. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

A Huntington house with a rich history sits in disrepair, but archaeologists believe that the dirt itself contains clues to the African-American experience on Long Island from long ago.

House that dates back to the 1600’s is now a site of an archaeological dig, Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

The Root host Felice Leon joins NBCLX to discuss the celebration of Kwanzaa and if the social reckoning that occurred throughout the country in 2020 has had an impact on the Kwanzaa tradition.

Stamford is the first school district in American to bring “The Blues and Beyond” to classrooms, teaching students about African American history through music. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.