Harlem community gives context to Black history's complexities in America

NEW YORK -- Last year, the College Board stripped its AP African American Studies course of key concepts, like the Black Lives Matter movement and reparations. Florida schools stopped teaching specialized classes altogether. But the Black community continues to put this complex part of America's past into context. Mother AME Zion Church, the first Black church established in New York state, still stands strong along a quiet street in Harlem and is home to an incomparable history.

In the hallway above Douglass, a new display reveals the Black men behind the world's most-famous foot race: the New York City Marathon. Joe Yancey and the New York Pioneer Club helped establish the first AAU track team in Harlem in 1942. Ten years later, his trainee Ted Corbitt became the first Black man to run an Olympic marathon. Corbitt's Road Runners Club created the city's first marathon in 1970.

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