During the month of April, the Gateways Music Festival presented a series of concerts at venues throughout Manhattan. ROUTES followed the festival sending several of... Read More
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
You can certainly “Take it to the Bank” if you asked the average person in the United States to name a classical music composer or... Read More
Many of us regularly read syndicated cartoons online or in print publications. Others enjoyed reading comic books as youngsters and have done so later on... Read More
Alma Vessells John, revered in the Harlem community as “Sister John”, was born on September 27, 1906, and grew up in South Philadelphia in a... Read More

The Gateways Music Festival Triumph and A. D. Lee Koonce
Gateways Music Festival and African-American Classical Music
Comic Books, Cartooning, AfroFuturism and Women Cartoonists
Alma Vessells John the quintessential community Queen Mother