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A large neighbourhood spread across the northern reaches of Manhattan, Harlem holds a singular place in American cultural history as a centre of Black life, art and music. Settled by the Dutch in the seventeenth century and named for the city of Haarlem, it grew through waves of newcomers and, in the early twentieth century, became the heart of a Black community whose creativity reshaped the nation's culture. The 1920s brought the Harlem Renaissance, an extraordinary flowering of literature, ar...