Monthly Archives: June 2026
In a Brooklyn brownstone, parlor jazz
By Marquis Chambers Photos by Brandon Aninipot It started with a Friday night fish fry to celebrate a beloved person who’d died. “My cousins played drums. I danced. We cooked food. We celebrated. And from there, things just started to happen,” said Debbie McClain, of what was happening in her Brooklyn backyard. Jazz lover McClain’s […]
Fractions, flavors, ‘culinary courage’ for kids
By Javon Huynh The library at P.S. 191 Paul Robeson School in Crown Heights had been transformed into a makeshift classroom for cooks. Tables were covered with cutting boards, measuring cups and bowls of vegetables. A smart board displayed the day’s lesson, “Mediterranean Rainbow Chickpea Crunch Bowls.” Before the fourth-graders began preparing the recipe, healthy […]
Preserving and highlighting Harlem’s history
By Marcus Craig Harlem’s Convent Avenue Baptist is a majority Black church in a mainly Black neighborhood. But on a recent Wednesday afternoon, white people filled up most of the seats. They’d paid to hear seven singers, a pianist and a drummer perform black gospel music. I’m a soldier in the army of the Lord […]
Inviting the boss to dinner, hoping for a gig
By Denzel Massaley Inside a lounge at BoxGroup, a tech venture-capital fund, college students mingled with company employees during a private dinner organized by Chelsea Commons. It aims to help its 12 college student founders and interning peers get face-to-face with potential employers — instead of just cold-calling, blind-emailing or otherwise waiting to hear back […]
For Gen-Z men, a surge in religious faith
By Danny Chung-A-Fung Health, relationships, finances, spirituality. Of those four self-professed pillars of 30-year-old Alex Gittens’ life, the last is what’s first in his heart and mind. It has not always been that way for Gittens. Especially while working three jobs to help pay his way through college, his faith fell through the cracks. He […]
‘Shirley Chisholm’ 5K races toward good health
By Xavier Board In 2021, the Shirley Chisholm 5K Trail run started as a simple way to foster community. Five years later, the event has increased its count and diversity of runners, while also upholding its tandem goals of improving public health and spotlighting the first Black female congresswoman and first Black person to vie […]
HBCUs as the No. 1 choice for Black grads
By Bradley Ross Jackson Khadirah Muhammad will start her freshman year at North Carolina Central University this fall with several goals in mind. She plans, as a collegian, to be a point of pride for her family. She will major in kinesiology, hoping to become a sports therapist. And she will connect with a ton […]