NORFOLK, Va. — Two new highway markers will be displayed to designate local Black history landmarks in Hampton Roads, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources announced Wednesday.

The couple changed the store’s name to Marcus Books in 1964 after Marcus Garvey. Marcus Books is credited as the longest continuously operating Black bookstore in the United States. Throughout its ...

Among the gems on display in the African Diaspora exhibit was “The First Amy Tells,” an unpublished autobiography of Amy Ashwood Garvey, the first wife of Marcus Garvey and co-founder of the Universal ...

The site of an abandoned police station on a busy block in Brownsville, Brooklyn, will soon become an affordable apartment complex, with an assist from the New York City Housing Authority.

Aug. 17 marks the day Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey was born. Often regarded as a controversial figure in history, Garvey was key in making the “back to Africa” movement mainstream.

I’m Black. I’m 6 feet tall, 245 pounds, and I sport thicker-than-average dreadlocks. I’m from Brownsville, Brooklyn — one of the most crime-ridden and impoverished neighborhoods in New York City. And ...

BK Partners is doubling down on its desire to build affordable housing at Brooklyn Village. Those plans were revealed in February when Donahue Peebles III, executive vice president of The Peebles ...

I’m a single parent to two kids in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Brownsville is a zone left behind by Con Edison where electrical power is sometimes short, so they shut off the elevators in the NYCHA houses.

"It's just a different world," Thomas said. "I had more opportunities in San Quentin, ironically, than I had growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn." Thomas experienced a small part of a broader ...

BK Partners, the master developer behind the Brooklyn Village project in uptown Charlotte, proposed selling acreage for affordable housing to Charlotte housing agency Inlivian and Legacy Real ...

The annual weekend of walking tours honoring Jane Jacobs includes explorations of Brooklyn neighborhoods, public art, and ...

Longtime NBA veteran Marcus Morris has definitely made waves in his first few appearances on ESPN as an analyst for Get Up and First Take. In his initial appearance, Morris offered up some ...