In the first installment of KOOL Sound Cities, we explore the significance of NYC to the Hip Hop we know today.

Do you remember the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon? And were all of the NBA finals’ games televised or even televised live? With the Indiana-Oklahoma City NBA final underway (after Thursday night, you ...

The University conferred six honorary degrees during Thursday's Commencement ceremony. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is known world-wide over as one of the greatest basketball players to ever play the game as ...

Today in Music History for June 5: ...

THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. is welcomed with a kiss by his wife Coretta after leaving court in Montgomery, Ala., March 22, 1956. Dr. King was found guilty of conspiracy to boycott city buses ...

Several Manhattan neighborhoods now have large curbside bins for residents’ trash. Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the program as ...

A "cultural Mecca" for the Black community, Harlem's historic Apollo Theater is set to undergo a major renovation. Newsweek ...

Pitts‘ elegiac meditation was published fourteen years ago, a pivotal moment in Harlem’s history has passed. Far beyond mere encroachment, gentrification has actually dislodged some guardians of Black ...

Produced by ABC Signature Studios, Godfather of Harlem continues to assert itself as one of the most compelling crime dramas on television.

From playing in empty swimming pools, barn lofts and dance halls to commanding the attention of millions of fans around the ...

NYC's West Harlem now has fully containerized trash collection, helping to reduce rat sightings and improve cleanliness.

It was a great day in Harlem. Count Basie ... As Rheingold says, "Hip-hop is part of the fabric of New York history, so of course it belongs in City Hall." ...