The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New Negro Movement" — saw the rise of jazz, the launch of such literary careers as Langston Hughes' and Zora Neale Hurston's, and a new sense of ...

“The Harlem Renaissance is both mythology and history ... “Quicksand” by Nella Larsen, “The New Negro” by Alain LeRoy Locke, “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes, “Their ...

Many went to Harlem—a New York neighborhood that had ... was among the most influential voices of the Harlem Renaissance. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, advocating ...

Harlem was pronounced the “Mecca of the New Negro” 99 years ago. That cultural renaissance is as far from us today as the contributors to that Survey Graphic issue were from the presidency of ...

The Harlem Renaissance is the beginning of the modern ... who wrote in his 1925 landmark book, "The New Negro": "Art must discover and reveal the beauty, which prejudice and caricature have ...

Much has happened in Harlem since it first jumped to international literary acclaim in the 1920s. Yet as the stewards of the ...

Alain Locke, the chief theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, identified Harlem as the home of the New Negro, the Black man or woman liberated from stereotypes, shaping their own life as they shaped ...

The Met includes some half dozen works by Reiss in “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic ... title of Alain Locke’s anthology “The New Negro: An Interpretation,” and it recurs in ...

Alain Locke is remembered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance largely for assembling “The New Negro,” a 1925 anthology that immortalized a small group of young writers—Langston Hughes ...

Now she’s taking up the challenge set by Alain Locke, a trailblazing critic during the Harlem Renaissance whose 1925 essay “The New Negro” became a touchstone for Black aesthetics.

The Harlem Renaissance is the beginning of the modern ... who wrote in his 1925 landmark book, "The New Negro": "Art must discover and reveal the beauty, which prejudice and caricature have ...