BOOK REVIEW “Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem” By Gary Phillips Agora/Polis, $27.99 Grade: A Mysteries can offer a bit of a history lesson as Gary Phillips shows in his excit… ...

Book review of “Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem” by Gary Phillips. Matthew Henson was a real person — a Black explorer who was part of the expedition with Robert Peary that ...

On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reached the North Pole. National Geographic Society confirmed the accomplishment in November 1909. Matthew Alexander Henson (August 6 ...

The photograph of a neatly dressed man named Matthew Henson hangs in the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery on Florida A&M University’s campus as part of a collection called The Kinsey Collection ...

In 1909 Matthew Henson became one of the first people ever to set foot on the North Pole. His part in this expedition was largely overlooked, due in part to his skin colour. Show more Matthew ...

Matthew Henson died on March 9, 1955 at 88 years old. His remains were initially buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, but he's since been laid to rest, according to his wishes, alongside ...

As scheduled, Henson, 67, was in the library’s conference room at 2 p.m., ready to talk about Matthew Henson and Josiah Henson, his great-great-great uncle, whose life as a runaway slave and ...

His early life sloshed at times, undefined like the open, wild sea. He ran away at 13 and walked to Baltimore, on the other side of Washington, D.C., from his birthplace in Charles County, Md. He ...

In Gary Phillips' exciting "Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem" the real-life Black explorer is reimagined as an adventurer and crime fighter in the 1920s.

Mysteries can offer a bit of a history lesson, as Gary Phillips shows in his exciting “Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem.”Matthew Henson was a real person — a Black explorer who ...