“Around 1965 a fire occurred in Harlem, in a multi-story tenement on 114th Street and 8th Avenue. FDNY Firefighters arrived and they were unaware that a group of children were on the second floor of the building. As smoke filled the staircase of the building the group children knew to exit up the staircase to the roof. However, one of the children a six-year-old African American male was stopped in the staircase by a Firefighter, the Firefighter grabbed the little boy and placed him under his ar

Art, music, poetry and more, the Harlem Renaissance was a veritable explosion of Black culture. #BlackHistoryMonth | HISTORY