Tag: Enslaved Africans
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The MTA Wants To Hear From You
Dear Valued MTA NYC Transit Customer,Even in a global pandemic, we’re working hard to improve your experience with the transit system. As we plan for more customers to return, we need to hear from you, even if you haven’t used transit since before the pandemic began in March 2020. We’d like to get an idea…
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Worrisome Harlem COVID Trends – Wear a Mask!
In East Harlem’s 10035 ZIP code, the positivity rate more than quadrupled from 0.37 to 1.53, and it more than doubled in Central Harlem’s 10030. Here is the four-week testing data through Oct. 24 for the eight ZIP codes covering Harlem: 10026 – Central Harlem (South): 38 positive cases, 1 death, 1.01 percent positivity 10027 –…
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Vote!
Enslaved Africans in Dutch Harlem Last year a number of major museums in The Netherlands began to cease using the term “Golden Age” to describe the 17th-century Dutch empire that included New Amsterdam, and the village that became Harlem. In particular, Dutch society has begun to wrestle with fact that much of the power and…
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1619 and 1658
The New York Times and its 1619 Project has brought forward the centrality of Black Americans to United States history to many of its readers and beyond. The core thesis of the 1619 Project: “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very…