Sugar Hill
Historic Harlem district
Sugar Hill is a neighborhood in upper Manhattan, historically associated with African American culture and the Harlem Renaissance.
The name suggests the "sweet life" enjoyed by its prosperous Black residents in the early twentieth century.
Sugar Hill also names a neighborhood in Houston and appears as a title for various songs celebrating Black achievement and urban life.
- HarlemManhattan neighborhood, cultural landmark
- jazz musicImprovisational American genre
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
- hip-hopRhythmic spoken-word music
- Billie Holiday"Strange Fruit" vocalist
Duke Ellington · Langston Hughes · brownstones · row houses · Jazz Age · Cotton Club · rent party · historic districts · W.E.B. Du Bois · Great Migration · beat · Manhattan · community pride · stoop · walking tours · nostalgia · James Baldwin · Black excellence
Sugar HillSkid Row
Impoverished urban district
Tobacco Road · San Juan Hill · Hell's Kitchen · Nowheresville