When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn and strengthened, thanks to a syncretic and intentionally popular music that eventually conquered the entire city.

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Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

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Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

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Four Black transgender sex workers in Atlanta and New York City break down the walls of their profes...