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Much has happened in Harlem since it first jumped to international literary acclaim in the 1920s. Yet as the stewards of the ...
A lot of artists leave New Orleans and end up in Chicago." While the Harlem Renaissance was centered in large part on literature and visual culture, "if you open it up to a wider understanding ...
When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, we usually think about it as a literary movement, writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. But the Black cultural revival that spanned from ...
This week’s installment tests your knowledge of novels, poems and memoirs by writers connected to the Harlem Renaissance, a creative movement by Black authors, artists and musicians that ...
A’Lelia Bundles is finally telling the story of her namesake in her new book “Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem ...
While researchers have suggested that Locke — who lived in Washington D.C. but mentored many Harlem Renaissance writers and poets — identified as gay among his friends and peers, they say he ...
Fauset didn’t just discover writers who have since become synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance; she was also one of them. “It’s not only that she discovered these people, but she helped ...
In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism ... reading list of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, beyond literature and music, beyond the prewar decades, and beyond Upper ...
The theme for this year's event is "Harlem Renaissance" and will feature readings from writers of that era. Sonya Mallard, cultural center coordinator of the Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial ...