![A life-size photograph of Michael Henry Adams’ father playing basketball dominates the room, alongside Barack Obama and a photo of Martin Luther King taken by Adams’ grandfather (above, right).](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/ARWHZRUADNESBISESEWYZJ4PUQ.png?auth=130450404025d7dea13e4024efbe8f707ec03f2ac08f26218c137562e3c15029&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Michael Henry Adams, the man who preserves Harlem: Speculators ‘thought that Black people would leave’
Adams is a kind of archaeologist of an endangered architecture; today his home is an unofficial museum of the history of the neighborhood
Adams is a kind of archaeologist of an endangered architecture; today his home is an unofficial museum of the history of the neighborhood
Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home with his wife Pamela by his side