Plus, new public programming, an exhibition that explores center's legacy, a Centennial Festival and even a special-edition NYPL library card.

Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...

the Howard University professor whose anthology “The New Negro” declared the philosophical basis of what is now called “The Harlem Renaissance.” Hughes and Locke were portrayed by the ...

African Americans from across the country flooded New York City’s Harlem, leading to an explosion of books, poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

The Harlem Renaissance offered African Americans across the country a new spirit of self determination ... This episode features an extract from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by ...

This is the world to which the new novel “Harlem Rhapsody” (Penguin ... is a fictionalization of the lives of many of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen ...

The Harlem Renaissance largely took place in the 1920s ... and caricature have overlaid” in one of his essays on “the New Negro.” The suave, dapper figures in Motley’s pictures are among ...

the first Black woman hired by the New York Public Library, started the research institute together 100 years ago with their team during the Harlem Renaissance, turning the 135th Street branch ...

Cécile Smetana for The New York Times As an African American scholar who has studied the Harlem Renaissance and the ... She replied, “I’m a Negro.” You can venture across the canal to ...