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The home of one of the largest catalogs of Black history turns 100 in New York
Many people outside the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture community remain unaware of the center’s existence.
Bucks County art exhibit highlights local 20th century artist, key figure in Harlem Renaissance movement
Selma Burke was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. The 20th-century sculptor and one-time New Hope resident's ...
At the Harlem Renaissance's Most Lavish Parties, Glamor was a Tool of Resistance
A new biography of A’Lelia Walker—the daughter of beauty mogul Madam C. J. Walker—reveals how her role as one of her era's ...
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A Fresh Look at 1940s Art and Design Offers Plenty of Surprises
A survey of art and design from the 1940s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals how creativity flourished out of hardship ...
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DOT unveils public art installation ‘Aunties’ in Harlem
The Department of Transportation unveiled on Friday a new piece of public art on Malcolm X Boulevard and 124th Street — ...
Derrick Adams Wants His Art to Be Fun
I believe that Black people should be able to experience the joy and the pleasure and the normalcy of walking into a museum ...
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New York research centre celebrates 100 years of documenting Black culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's first collection was started in 1925, and today, it is among the oldest ...
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The Harlem Renaissance is worth remembering
Even still, Harlem impacted the art, music, and writing of virtually all of the participants in the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem refers to the part of Manhattan Island north of Central Park and ...