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By Shafrana Carpen
By the mid-1980s, New York City had become a second home for tens of thousands of Caribbean immigrants. Guyanese, Trinidadians, Jamaicans, and others settled in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, bringing their cultures with them. Between 1980 and 1990, immigrants from the Caribbean made up
By Mark Kleinman
Marc Brunel’s task, set him by Colonel Stevens, was to use internal combustion to make a steamboat engine that was lighter and more efficient than Stevens and Roosevelt’s previous attempts. This engine had to be “simple, within the limits of American manufacturing skills, and economical enough both to construct and maintain… Stevens [th...
By Beatriz Carolina Peña
On October 20, 1753, Afro-descendant sailors Joseph Antonio Fiallo and Alejandro Joseph de la Torre wrote from prison to New York Attorney General William Kempe in Spanish, rendering his name as “Gyllerno Quenpo” — translating William into Spanish (albeit imperfectly) while phonetically approximating his surname. They a...