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How Gentrification Rewrote Harlem, Block by Block

How Gentrification Rewrote Harlem, Block by Block

Harlem has been called the cultural capital of Black America for more than a century. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s produced writers, musicians, and artists whose influence still runs through American culture...

MAY 22, 2026 · 6 MIN · BY BRENDA SMITH