Black artists, musicians, writers, and reformers flocked to the neighborhood of Harlem in the early 20th century, creating a ...
NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.
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.
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 ...
Plus, new public programming, an exhibition that explores center's legacy, a Centennial Festival and even a special-edition ...
It can be argued that even before the Harlem Renaissance, the concept of Black intellectualism was born right here in Atlanta.
The publication of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (2018) made visible that in the 1920s Black writers emerged whose writings led to the period being called the Harlem Renaissance. While ...
The Fabric of Our Lives" on Feb. 21 at Florida Tech showcases the Harlem Renaissance through song, performance and spoken ...
A pop-up exhibit highlighting the intersectionality between the rich history of both the Black and LGBTBQ+ communities during ...