Nationalities and traditions vary in the Harlem community known as Little Senegal, but one thing West Africans in this neighborhood share is the French language.
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Harlem schools helps immigrant families preserve their heritage
Posted on 26 October 2017.
Posted in Boroughs, Education, Featured, Manhattan, Podcasts, West African0 Comments
In New York’s Senegalese community, savings plans are DIY
Posted on 18 October 2016.
When Aissatou Ndao moved to the U.S. from Senegal in 1986, she struggled to make ends meet. Then she joined a tontine, a savings plan popular in many immigrant communities.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Boroughs, Featured, Manhattan, West African0 Comments
In a changing Harlem, West African vendors struggled to preserve business
Posted on 08 October 2015.
In Harlem, some longtime West African vendors are threatened as construction encroaches on their locations.
Posted in Boroughs, Business, Communities, Featured, Immigration, Issues, Manhattan, West African0 Comments
One City, Many Cultures
Posted on 13 December 2014.
Global City NYC reporters explore religious, culinary and cultural traditions in the city’s ethnic neighborhoods.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Bangladeshi, Boroughs, Bronx, Brooklyn, Dominican, Featured, Haitian, Immigration, Indian, Jamaican, Manhattan, Mexican, Nepali, Polish, Queens, Religion, Russian, West African0 Comments
Coming to America
Posted on 08 December 2014.
New York City is an ethnic mosaic, the adopted home to newcomers from around the world. Global City NYC reporters tell the stories of how a few of these New Yorkers immigrated to America.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Bangladeshi, Boroughs, Bronx, Brooklyn, Dominican, Featured, Haitian, Indian, Jamaican, Manhattan, Nepali, Queens, West African0 Comments
The Endless Pursuit of Fair Skin
Posted on 05 December 2014.
Along Harlem’s commercial centers like 125th and 116th Streets, almost every beauty shop and general store sells an assortment of skin-lightening products, many of them popular imports from West Africa.
Posted in Arts and Culture, Featured, Manhattan, West African0 Comments
Big Sense of Stigmatization in Little Liberia
Posted on 21 October 2014.
The growing fear over the deadly Ebola virus has translated to an increased sense of stigmatization among Liberians living in Staten Island’s Little Liberia community
Posted in Featured, Issues, News, Staten Island, West African0 Comments
You Say Malcolm X Blvd., They Say Lenox
Posted on 02 October 2014.
Many West African immigrants choose not to call Harlem’s streets by their official commemorative names, even though their old names are not on any street signs.
Posted in Boroughs, Communities, Featured, Manhattan, West African0 Comments
Liberian Business Development Slow in Immigrant Community
Posted on 23 January 2014.
Staten Island is home to the largest population of Liberians outside of Liberia itself, but it’s rare to find Liberian owners among the borough’s storefronts.
Posted in Business, Communities, Featured, Staten Island, West African0 Comments
One City, Many Cultures
Posted on 22 December 2013.
Global City NYC reporters explore religious, culinary and cultural traditions in the city’s ethnic neighborhoods — with a couple of side trips abroad, to Haiti and India.
Posted in Boroughs, Colombian, Communities, Featured, Greek, Honduran, News, Polish, Politics, Uncategorized, West African0 Comments
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