YMCA

Arts & Culture

Meet Eunice Hunton Carter, the Black Woman Who Took Down Lucky Luciano

This month marks the 85th anniversary of what was billed at the time by the New York newspapers as the

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Untapped New York Jun 29, 2021

Architecture

5 Places Open to African Americans Under Jim Crow Laws, from the Green Book Travel Guide

\The Fall 1956 Edition of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book. Image from New York Public Library. Whether traveling to a

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Benjamin Waldman Aug 16, 2016

Architecture

A Forgotten Harlem Renaissance Mural Inside the Harlem YMCA

As Black History Month comes to a close in 2016, we decided to explore an overlooked artistic gem in Harlem.

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Benjamin Waldman Feb 29, 2016

Arts & Culture

The Oldest Basketball Court in the World is in a Paris YMCA

The origins of basketball are undeniably in America, in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891 where the game was invented at Springfield

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Michelle Young Sep 30, 2014