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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’Lelia Bundles is finally telling the story of her namesake in her new book “Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem ...
Harrier headed to aviation museum: The Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum will receive a combat-tested AV-8B Harrier ...
the art of Black dandyism really hit a stride during the Harlem Renaissance. The New York City neighborhood established itself as a wellspring of African American literature, art, and music as ...
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The History of Pride in DC
Deacon Maccubin, founder of Lambda Rising bookstore in Dupont Circle, holds DC’s first annual Pride event, the Gay Pride ...
From Where I Sit is an ongoing series written by regular guest columnists who represent a range of Yakima Valley voices and ...
The 20th century looms large in this selection of five new historical novels. Momentous events — the sinking of the Titanic, life after World War I, the Hollywood blacklists — shape the lives of ...
It started in 1925 as part of the Harlem Renaissance movement, when Black writers, artists, and scholars helped to reshape Black American culture. Writer and scholar Arturo Schomburg collected ...
These Black beach communities offer sun, sand, and rich cultural history—perfect for Memorial Day Weekend or a summer escape.
The writers of the Harlem Renaissance fired my imagination and made me feel I could be a writer, too. … At the Makerere conference (the African Writers Conference, in 1962), I met with Langston Hughes ...