The Welikia Project, made by ecologists at the New York Botanical Garden, uncovers all the flora and fauna that thrived in ...

One of the best and worst things about New York City is the amount of food options. There are more restaurants in NYC than ...

California's ancient buttonwillow tree and the town named after it, 25 fabulous things to do in L.A. and more big stories.

A founder of New York City’s Greenmarkets, Barry Benepe’s legacy extends into the Hudson Valley, where he kickstarted the ...

Houston’s Married Ladies Social, Art and Charity Club empowered Black women and communities through service, education and activism.

The image—black and white, haunting ... inspiring renewed examination of existing urban maps, lithographs, and historical records. Indeed, as Hekimoglou noted, previous visual references to the city’s ...

Nicole Arruda, the founder of Nicole Alexandra Design in New York City, installed an ... Goldberg’s clients’ many maps from their travels. She framed the wall art in various antique decorative ...

with White capitalists often working through Black-owned banks to invest in Black communities. Washington D.C.’s evolution tells yet another story. The city’s Shaw neighborhood, particularly ...

Through the early part of the 20th century, the area’s population was evenly divided between black and white residents. But by the 1930s, Third Ward became increasingly African American and, as one ...

Washington said that of all the Southern cities he visited, he saw the sanest attitude of white people toward the Black community in Durham. He said that he never had seen a city with so many ...

Across New York City’s subway system ... “Even though many maps are lies, a map is made with geometric shapes and primary colors and black and white; we just assume that it is delivering ...

At first glance, it looks like an aerial photo of a cemetery destroyed by war, with charred coffins ripped from broken concrete vaults and arched marble tombstones flattened by a bomb blast.