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

African American literature also flourished during the Harlem Renaissance. Acclaimed American writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston would often hold readings and parties in the parlor ...

The film imagines the Harlem Renaissance that Hughes (who is assumed, but not definitively known, to have been gay) might have inhabited. Isaac Julien “Pas de Deux No. 2 (Looking for Langston Vintage ...

Related stories However, Vogue reported that the movement truly blossomed during the Harlem Renaissance when figures like Langston Hughes and Cab Calloway emerged, changing both society at large ...

Met Gala was inspired by menswear and Black dandyism. The latter style is a crucial part of Black culture and empowerment.

Sinclair Lewis is quoted as saying, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” He ...

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 ...

From Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, its prominent minds reshaped the fabric of American culture and challenged prejudiced beliefs. The Harlem Renaissance ...

These Black beach communities offer sun, sand, and rich cultural history—perfect for Memorial Day Weekend or a summer escape.

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 ...

The Met’s exhibition charts the evolution of the Black dandy from the 18th century to today. Here’s what to look for on the ...