Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

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

A variety of people were present for the opening day of a new historical exhibit at Texas A&M University-Texarkana on Tuesday ...

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.

Veteran author Victoria Christopher Murray returns with her first solo work of historical fiction, “Harlem Rhapsody.” ...

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 ...

Now he’s considered the foremost artist of the Harlem Renaissance – a pioneer who ... illustrations to Alain Locke’s ‘The New Negro.’ He was the only African-American artist to be ...

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 ...