The Harlem African Burial Ground: History Beneath Our Feet February 12th at 12PM VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM register here As a cemetery for free and enslaved Africans from the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s, the Harlem African Burial Ground is a sacred site of New York City’s early history, and yet for decades the site was forgotten and […]

Envisioning Seneca Village February 26th at 12PM VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM Register here By Gergely Baics, Meredith Linn, Leah Meisterlin, and Myles Zhang Seneca Village was a community established by African American landowners in 1825 and destroyed by the City of New York in 1857 for the construction of Central Park. Research beginning in the 1990s […]