Letter from the Editor: A Time to Act and Rebuild
Publisher Paul Jackson introduces The Harlem Times’ Special Commemorative Edition, Fall/Winter 2026, honoring Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Sixty-Five Years Later, a Promise to Keep
A note from Japhet Aryiku, Executive Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation, on the campaign to memorialize Du Bois in Accra.
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Full Circle: How We Can All Honor the Legacy of Freedom Fighter W.E.B. Du Bois
Kwame Anthony Appiah on growing up in the world Du Bois helped make, and why his final home in Accra must be preserved.
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A Giant of the Mind: Why We Must Preserve the Legacy of the Father of American Scientific Sociology
Philanthropist Daniel Rose on why Accra is the fitting home for a living institution dedicated to Du Bois’s ideas and scholarship.
A New Timbuktu: Why We Must Build the Great Library and Complete the Encyclopedia Africana
Du Bois biographer David Levering Lewis on the great library Du Bois dreamt of, and why the time has come to complete the Encyclopedia Africana.
Sacred Ground: The Renaissance Man Who Would Give Birth to the Civil Rights Movement
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on his pilgrimages to W.E.B. Du Bois’s grave in Accra, and why the Du Bois Centre must become a world-class museum and library.
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JPMorganChase’s Silvana Montenegro on self-reinvention, career planning—and the impact of Hispanic and Latino communities
Photo: Silvana Montenegro From starting as an intern in São Paulo to becoming an executive in New York City, Silvana Montenegro—Global Head of the Office of Hispanics & Latinos for JPMorganChase—has built a nearly 29-year career shaped by perseverance, mentorship and purpose. In a sit down with Silvana, she shares how to navigate career pivots,
Look Up and Live: Triumph of the Human Spirit
By The Harlem Times Staff UPDATE: The 7th Annual Triumph of the Human Spirit Day took place on Thursday, October 8, 2026, with a drum procession from the African Burial Ground National Monument to Dr. Lorenzo Pace’s Triumph of the Human Spirit monument in Foley Square. Our preview of the day and our conversation with
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A Little-Known Swedish Company Offers New Hope for Alzheimer’s Treatment
Story by THT Media Lab Staff, Photo: Tord Labuda, CEO of Alzinova Alzinova is testing an experimental treatment intended to help the body fight harmful protein clumps in the brain. Early data is promising, and the next round of research will help show whether that promise holds. “When an elder dies, a library burns to
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Attorney Yolande I. Nicholson Helps Secure $60 Million Settlement Against NYC
Photo: Civil Rights Attorney Yolande I. Nicholson Class action targeted city program that seized homes, largely in Black and Latino neighborhoods NEW YORK, Brooklyn civil rights attorney Yolande I. Nicholson is part of the legal team that has reached a $60 million class action settlement with the City of New York on behalf of homeowners
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