WHERE HARLEM RESTS – TROLLEY TOUR SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2026, 12:00 PM Woodlawn Cemetery trolley tour led by Project Historian Eric K. Washington: examining lives of 25 Black figures, many of them unsung Harlem Renaissance notables. Space is limited; purchase tix here: www.woodlawn.org/conservancy/...

Application deadline for the XIVth cohort of Columbia's Bundles Community Scholars is April 17, 2026. neighbors.columbia.edu/news/your-20...

Thrilled to join @caroljenkins.bsky.social , w/ @aleliabundles.bsky.social, to discuss Black biography; “Joy Goddess” and “Boss of the Grips”; BIO’s Rollin Fellowship; Woodlawn Cemetery’s “Where Harlem Rests” project. View “No One Can Tell It Like We Can Tell It” here: tv.cuny.edu/show/blackam...

Wonderful to talk to biographer @ethelene-whitmire.bsky.social about her new book, “The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love.” Listen to BIO Podcast #247: biographersinternational.org/news/podcast... #blackhistory #lgbtqhistory #wwii

WHERE HARLEM RESTS Highlighting notable Harlem Residents at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bx. Eric K. Washington, historian, will present a tour preview (indoors). Sun, Feb 15, 2026, 1PM Woodlawn Cemetery Woolworth Chapel Jerome Ave entrance Free. Register: woodlawnconservancy.givecloud.co/product/Harl...

Thanks @gaofnyc.bsky.social for inviting me to speak last eve at Bklyn’s American Legion lodge about Chief James H. Williams and the Red Caps of GC Terminal. The venue gave poignancy to Wms’s special relationship w/vets, like the Harlem Hellfighters! To view, cue to 52:20: youtu.be/y1pBrrjuy18?...

Thanks @kayangrum.bsky.social for interviewing me during NBC News’s Black History Month coverage about the NYC-landmarked (Former) Colored School No. 4. nbcnewyork.app.link/q0BMKI2Nr0b

The Rollin Fellowship awards $5,000 each to two authors working on a biographical work about an Atrican American figure or figures whose story provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Black experience. Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 Apply: biographersinternational.org/award/the-fr...

It was a pleasure to interview Marion Orr about his new biography, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.," for the Biographers International Org (BIO) Podcast. Check it out here: biographersinternational.org/news/podcast...

The Rollin Fellowship awards $5,000 each to two authors working on a biographical work about an Atrican American figure or figures whose story provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Black experience. Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 Apply: biographersinternational.org/award/the-fr...

Thank you, Michael Henry Adams, for your nice piece in the @nyamnews.bsky.social about my conversation last week with @aleliabundles.bsky.social on her new biography, “Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance,” for the Leon Levy Center for Biography! amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/09...

Tonight, I’ll be talking to @aleliabundles.bsky.social about #JoyGoddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance (in-person and virtual). www.gc.cuny.edu/events/aleli...

Log fwd to talking with @aleliabundles.bsky.social for the Leon Levy Center for Biography (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) about her book, "Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance," Tue, Sept 9, 2025, at 6:30pm. Register here (in-person or virtual): www.gc.cuny.edu/events/aleli...

Great chatting with John Reddick at Innovation Triangle this evening about my remounted 2004 neighborhood history exhibit, “Manhattanville: Hidden in Plain Sight,” sponsored by @whaanyc.

I’m thrilled West Harlem Arts Alliance has re-mounted “Manhattanville: Hidden in Plain Sight,” my 2004 panel-based public history exhibit — based on my 2002 book, “Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem” — not seen in 21 years. Innovation Triangle, 450 West 126th St, every Wed & Thu, 12-4pm.

R.I.P. Dame Cleo Laine (28 October 1927 – 24 July 2025) www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

How fortuitous is it that I received an advance copy of Daniel E. Atkinson’s new biography of George Walker on the anniversary of the legendary comedian’s birth on July 15, 1872. Pre-order yours here: sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

I’m overjoyed to talk to journalist and author @aleliabundles.bsky.social about her new book, “Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance,” on the @biographersintl.bsky.social Podcast. Listen here: biographersinternational.org/news/podcast...

It was wonderful to interview @prithik.bsky.social about her book, “Brooklynites.” To check out our conversation on @biographersintl.bsky.social Podcast #220, go to: biographersinternational.org/news/podcast...

@peterbakernyt.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social in conversation with Susan Page at James Atlas Plenary of 2025 @biographersintl.bsky.social (BIO) conference in Washington DC.

Enjoyed participating in a stimulating panel at the NCORE2025 Conference this morning, “Community in the Academy: The Columbia University A’Lelia Bundles Community Scholars Program,” with @aleliabundles.bsky.social, #georgecalderaro, #marthadiaz and #johnreddick

So excited that my colleague @aleliabundles.bsky.social’s “Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance” arrived while I was away! Pre-order: bookshop.org/p/books/joy-...

Sculpture of Ira Aldridge as Othello (ca. 1860s), by Pietro Calvi (1833–1884), on display in the exhibit ‘100: A Century of Collections, Community and Creativity,” at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Congratulations, Shennette Garrett-Scott and Fara Dabhoiwala, winners of @biographersintl.bsky.social’s 2025 Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship! biographersinternational.org/news/shennet...

Thanks Councilmember @ebottcher.bsky.social for arranging a site inspection with @nycsanitation.bsky.social of the (Former) Colored School No. 4 schoolhouse in Chelsea.

Had a great time today as guest lecturer at @columbiagsapp.bsky.social’s graduate historic preservation studio — “In Search of Black Bohemia: Reparative Preservation in Manhattan’s Tenderloin.” Thanks for inviting me, and for all the great questions!

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Day II — “Telling the Stories of Black Lives through Biography” Conference, @troyuniversity.bsky.social @biographersintl.bsky.social #blackbiomonty2025

Thank you, @gaofnyc.bsky.social, for last night’s Lifetime Achievement Award honor, and David Freeland for your very kind introduction! 🙏🏾❤️

The video of my recent talk for the Van Cortlandt House Museum, “The Legacy of Colored School No. 4,” is now viewable online: youtu.be/ZuOQDt7oT_k?...

“Greenwich Village as Harlem’s Preamble and Echo” DOROT invites you to join Eric K. Washington for an illustrated talk, virtual. Free. FRI, FEB 28, 2025, 12 – 1:30 PM Register: dorotusa-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thanks to the @us.theguardian.com, which interviewed me for today’s piece about the NYC designated landmark, #formercoloredschoolno4, and its notable staff and students, who included #sarahtompkinsgarnet, #williamappo, #jimogenhoward and #jameshwilliams. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Manhattanville: Old Heart of West Harlem” DOROT invites you to join Eric K. Washington for an illustrated talk, virtual FRI, FEB 21, 2025, 12 – 1:30 PM Register: dorot.trumba.com/Manhattanvil...

Join historian Eric K. Washington’s talk on The Legacy of Former "Colored" School No. 4. This forgotten 19th-c. landmark served NYC’s African American students & teachers through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. In person and on Zoom: Thu, Feb 13, at 6pm Registration: www.vchm.org

February 11th, Woodlawn Conservancy hosts its next Book Talk! Free virtual lecture; authors @aleliabundles.bsky.social and @erickwashington.bsky.social discuss some of the iconic Harlem Renaissance figures you can find at the Woodlawn Cemetery. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I'm deeply honored that I'm to receive the @gaofnyc.bsky.social's 2025 GANYC Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual gala, hosted by Mark Nadler, Merkin Hall, March 3: www.ganyc.org/2025-ganyc-a...

Segment of ABC7’s @hereandnowabc where Sandra Bookman interviews Andrew Berman of Village Preservation (@gvshp_nyc) and me about the Jacob Day Residence, at 50 West 13th Street, which the @nyc.landmarks recently designated. abc7ny.com/post/here-no...

Thx @cathleencampbellpix for pics from my gallery talk yesterday at CU’s @wallachartgallery.bsky.social — “Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry and Ecology Along the Hudson River. I discussed Victor G. Audubon’s “View of the Hudson River at Manhattanville” and Glenn O. Coleman’s “Fort Lee Ferry.”

Join me for an informal gallery talk about two paintings in “Shifting Shorelines” exhibit, Victor G. Audubon’s “View of the Hudson River at Manhattanville” and Glenn O. Coleman’s “Fort Lee Ferry.” Free: Wallach Art Gallery (Columbia/M’ville), Sat, Jan 11, 2pm: wallach.columbia.edu/events/walla...

Fun finish to a terrific @historians.org #AHA25 conference was their first-time Pitch Slam, where I of course talked about #sarahgarnet, #formercoloredschoolno4 and #hbogildedage. 📸: @blackinhistpres

The segment on @hereandnowabc where Andrew Berman of Village Preservation and I discuss the recently landmark-designated Jacob Day Residence, at 50 West 13th Street, will air Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 12-noon, on ABCTV7.

Just four more weeks! The Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship awards $5K each to two authors working on a biographical work about African American figure(s) whose story significantly contributes to our understanding of the Black experience. Apply here: biographersinternational.org/award/the-fr...

Thursday, February 13, 2025 6 PM. This illustrated talk by historian Eric K. Washington visits an unassuming building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood that sheds a telling light on 19th-century Gotham’s forgotten past: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-legacy...

First major nat’l Black bio conf. in nearly 40 yrs! “Telling the Stories of Black Lives through Biography” Key: A’Lelia Bundles (“Joy Goddess”) Feat: David Greenberg (“John Lewis”) BiographersInt’l/ Troy U. Mar 21 - 22, 2025 Montgomery, AL Register: biographersinternational.org/montgomery-b...

Thanks to Sandra Bookman of Here and Now-ABC 7 for the wonderful interview today with Andrew Berman of Village Preservation and me about the Jacob Day Residence, at 50 West 13th Street, which the @nyclandmarks.bsky.social recently designated. The segment should air in January 2025.

R.I.P. Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

Mural, “Evolution of the Negro Dance”(1933), by Aaron Douglas (1899-1979). The Harlem Renaissance artist’s last in situ painting in New York still presides, hidden in plain sight, in a recreation room of the landmarked 135th Street Y.M.C.A. . #iphone12

History buffs can indulge #blackfriday sales minus the elbowing shoppers! You can still purchase my book, "Boss of the Grips," an "illuminating biography" (Kirkus ⭐) about the Harlem-based "Red Caps," Grand Central Terminal's essential early 20th-c. Black workforce: www.amazon.com/Boss-Grips-W...