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6 total sentences available.
“Sylvia's in Harlem does not invent what is sometimes called down-home food or soul food, but it exemplifies that kind of cuisine and is also an example of the story of African American migration from the South to the North,” Freedman says.
Source: tatoeba (9341315)
Izzy, a Havanese therapy dog, is a regular visitor to Public School 57 in East Harlem, New York. Students meet him in the library, pick out a book and flop down on the carpet. Izzy snuggles up to them and gets ready to hear a story.
Source: tatoeba (10989473)
The Studio Museum in the Harlem section of New York City is currently focusing on the years 1925-1945, the pivotal modernist period in African American Art. The exhibition, which runs through the end of March, opened as part of Black History Month activities in the United States.
Source: tatoeba (12296895)
The Harlem museum is reaffirming its mission to celebrate the richness of Latin American and Caribbean art and culture with this landmark exhibition.
Source: tatoeba (12307981)
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Closest matches include artistic flowering, cultural renaissance, district, harlem renaissance-style, harlem-based.
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