Malcolm‑Jamal Warner, the actor who became a household name as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show and later distinguished himself as a director, poet, and…
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No Exit, No Exhale: The Rush of Uncut Gems
There’s no “feel-good” moment in Uncut Gems, only the crushing reverberation of adrenaline. From the first frame, the Safdie brothers trap us inside the world…
NYPL Celebrates 100 Years of James Baldwin
Acclaimed American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924, and the New York Public Library is celebrating his life…
The Harlem Jewel by R. Shabazz: 2024 Winter Edition
THE TEMPTATIONS CHRISTMAS Originally published in the 2023 EG Gazette Winter Edition.
2023 Winter Reading: WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is a 2017 collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates originally published in The Atlantic magazine between…
2023 Summer Reading: THE COLOR OF LAW: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SEGREGATED AMERICA
Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most…
The Harlem Jewel by Rahim Shabazz: 2023 Summer Edition
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane is a 1961 album by Thelonious Monk, released on Jazzland Records, a subsidiary of Riverside Records. The album features material…







