The Upper Manhattan neighborhood was the birthplace and namesake of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship ...

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 ...

How the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance built collections and, just as important, communities of writers and readers. By Jennifer Schuessler It was a banner day in the ...

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

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 ...

When the time came for my own interview, I recalled being directly inspired by both the Black Arts Movement and the Harlem Renaissance ... fair share of painters, writers, poets, musicians ...

Cuney also kept his distance from the Harlem Renaissance patron and publicist Carl Van Vechten, a white man who connected Black writers with opportunities but whose affection for Black culture ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age of Black culture. An iconic period of our history, the time between 1920 and 1937 gave birth to Black literature, art, fashion and music that left a lasting ...

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 ...