Walking tour thru Harlem’s Black history, discover how AfroLatines shaped culture, music and art through Black diasporic cultural exchanges. This is a walking tour from 142nd street to 110th street.

Walk through Harlem and uncover the AfroLatin American and Caribbean histories woven into one of the world’s most important centers of Black culture. This walking tour explores Harlem as a meeting ground where African Americans, AfroCaribbean people, Afro-Latin Americans, and Africans created new forms of music, knowledge, resistance, and belonging.

From the Cotton Club and Savoy Ballroom to the Schomburg Center and the birth of Afro-Cuban jazz, we will trace the stories of figures like Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Mario Bauzá, Chano Pozo, Luis Russell, Princess Orelia Benskina, René Endreira , Graciela Pérez Gutiérrez and other Black diasporic visionaries, collectives and institutions that shaped Harlem’s cultural landscape. Together, we will explore how migration, jazz, dance halls, intellectual movements, and African-derived traditions connected communities across borders.

This is a journey through the living legacy of Black internationalism, Black cultural capital, and the ongoing diasporic cultural exchanges that continue to shape New York and the African Diaspora today.