Harlem Street Signs featured-sports " wrote Marguerite Holloway

" wrote Marguerite Holloway

grinned and tooled off again

for nearly half a century

some were poignant and all were proof that fact is stranger than fiction

Luxor and other cultural destinations along the Nile River

Harlem Street Signs featured-sports " wrote Marguerite HollowayThis image from 1987 highlights the street sign added that year to a segment of Sixth Avenue north of Central Park honoring slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. It was shot by Don Hogan Charles, the first Black photographer to be hired by The New York Times and a figure widely regarded for his poignant images of the civil rights movement and of everyday life in New York. A lifelong New Yorker and longtime resident of Harlem, Charles photographed