#Harlem

This thread is dedicated to those saying we aren't seeing images of the reality of COVID-19 in hospitals across the U.S.This is not an exhaustive list but I wanted to
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The appeal of the hub-and-spoke model is straightforward: rather than commuting into the central office every day, most employees travel to an office closer to where they reside. They get
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LA TO IE HISTORY THREAD: Did you know that a South Central power couple “Nolie & Lela Murray” made a historic shift to the IE when a church member offered
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Deinterlining: A thread.So before Covid @A320Lga and I were working on a detailed report showing how interlining limits the subway capacity. One day the full report will be released but
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Before Michael Jackson, there was Frankie Lymon the lead child prodigy of the group "The Teenagers"... Franklin Joseph Lymon was born on September 30, 1942 in Harlem, New York to
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"At every phase in your life, look at your options. Please, do not select boring ones."-Barbara HillaryBarbara Hillary (1931-2019) was a nurse, activist, two-time cancer survivor, the first Black woman
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It's Black History Month, so I thought it would be useful to make a little thread of those who came before us.Please feel free to add any I missed or
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During grad school I was literally picked up off the street in Harlem by plain clothed police officers who didn't show me a badge, put me in the back of
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Morning. Happy birthday to James Weldon Johnson. Born in LaVilla (Jacksonville), JWJ is the most accomplished amazing man I've come to know. Once was asked what his favorite or most
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Like, I would guess, a lot of white people of my age (55) , right now I'm wondering how I could have grown up with an excellent education and still
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Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston As a Harlem Renaissance novelist, ethnographer, and anthropologist, the legendary writer protected and honored Black stories. In honor of her birthday, here's a short
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Have a Happy 4th of July! Here’s a thread about a great American artist, Alice Neel (1900-84). She was famed for her emotive & psychologically intense expressionist portraits. Her work
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Leon Levinstein, Head of Man with Hat and Cigar - 1960 Saul Leiter, Taxi, 1957 Vivian Maier Walker Evans, Pabst Blue Ribbon Sign, Chicago 1946 Robert Frank, Hollywood, 1955 Robert
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Black people created every type of music in America. The Banjo is one of the foundational musical instruments of country. It’s a descendent of something called a lute which is
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One thing your enemies def don't want is for you to search history for possible answers. This society works hard to divorce you from the lessons of previous movement moments.
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#OneNightInMiami was set in Brownsville, Florida (Central Miami-Dade). A neighborhood that started as white-owned farmland and transitioned into a Black neighborhood. Kinda like Memphis’ “The Curve” or 125th Street
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