New York Amsterdam News

James Baldwin’s letters acquired by the Schomburg

James Baldwin, a native son of Harlem, is home again, at least some of his precious letters and other artifacts are after having been acquisitio…

Ken Thompson dead at 50

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken P. Thompson, 50, died Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, after battling cancer for several months—unknown to the general publi…

And then there was justice

Almost five years ago 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was strangled in his home and died hours later in a hospital in Potsdam, N.Y.