civil rights
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Arts & Culture
How Sojourner Truth Became an Icon of the Black Liberation Movement, from the Gotham Center Archives
Untapped New York is excited to continue our editorial collaboration with the Gotham Center for New York City History. In
Arts & Culture
New Film Explores Legacy of The East, a Forgotten 1970s Cultural Organization in Brooklyn
Brooklyn-based filmmakers Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa have brought a story that needed telling back to life. In their
Events
NYC’s Early Streetcars and America’s First Freedom Rider, Elizabeth Jennings
The early omnibuses of New York City “were little more than glorified stagecoaches,” writes author Jerry Mikorenda in his book
