Colin Powell broke new ground as the first African-American Secretary of State in U.S. history. His remarkable life began in Harlem, New York on April 5, 1937. Powell’s rise to become one of America’s ...

History remembers the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom as a defining moment in America’s civil rights journey. Behind this remarkable gathering of 200,000 people stood Bayard Rustin – a ...

Few voices command attention like James Earl Jones’s deep, rolling contrabass – a sound often likened to “the voice that Moses heard when addressed by God.” His journey from a childhood marked by ...

Musical visionary Vy Higginsen created history with her 1983 masterpiece “Mama, I Want to Sing!”—the longest-running black off-Broadway musical at Harlem’s Heckscher Theater. Her remarkable eight-year ...